Small Teams Ship, Big Teams Sync

Team of 4: six communication paths. Team of 8: twenty-eight.

Adding people makes things exponentially harder. Not linearly. Exponentially.

We optimize for collaboration without accounting for coordination costs.

The math is brutal. More people means more meetings, alignment sessions, and "quick syncs" that aren't quick.

Everyone's talking, but nobody's building.

I've seen great ideas die in committee, not because they were wrong, but because explaining them to twelve people took longer than just doing the work.

The dirty secret? Sometimes the best team is just you, alone, with a clear deadline.

No consensus. No stakeholder management. No communication overhead.

Just focus.

Amazon's two-pizza rule exists for a reason. If you can't feed your team with two pizzas, it's too big.

This connects to When We Become They - individual clarity dissolves into collective hesitation.

Small teams ship. Big teams sync. The Momentum Engine shows the right size.