Why growing organizations slow down as alignment costs expand faster than output capacity
More teams don’t just create more output. They create more coordination.
- More dependencies.
- More communication paths.
- More negotiation required to move work forward.
At scale, coordination becomes a structural tax.
And eventually, maintaining alignment consumes more energy than execution itself.
https://primamachina.substack.com/p/coordination-is-a-tax-on-scale