Friday, February 07, 2003

Magic Numbers - The Evolutionary Rules for Ideal Team Size What is a team? Are there thresholds for effective team size? The growing science of the understanding of Magic Numbers suggest that there are. If we breach them we lose trust and we increase social friction. If we were to understand these team size thresholds better - we would need less "management" and we would have more collaboration. If we understood them better we could implement supporting technology such as weblogs and Groove better as well. This series of linked articles is derived from work by the late John Pfeiffer, Robin Dunbar and Malcolm Gladwell 3:26:05 PM    comment []

Airlines - In Europe the Discounters get stronger and the Traditional get weaker I don't think that the traditional airlines have a response to the discounters - the discounters have a different model which the traditional airline cannot copy as they are bound by who they are. They would have to die to give up their existing structure but will die anyway. Funny isn't it. We would rather die that give up who we are. Now this is a new type of business competition: not about being more efficient but by giving your competitor an impossible emotional choice! 9:48:18 AM    comment []

Air Canada in Trouble Huge loss and signs that a traditional airline has no moves that make sense when competing against the new style carrier 4:41:22 AM    comment []