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By: Agile Elephant puts business first – Running Open Organisations – Lessons from the Past No. 1: Ricardo Semler

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:33:37 +0000

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By: Agile Elephant puts business first – The 7S model – where “S” means Social

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:50:26 +0000

[…] at Heterarchical and Holon approaches even then based on her client experience. As I wrote in my piece on the many Dunbar numbers, business copied its structures from the military structures of yesteryear, the military has […]

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Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:44:49 +0000

[…] group of 5-8, then Pod groups of 12, then group of pods totalling 140 (see Alan’s recent post on Dunbar numbers – there are more than […]

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Hierarchy redux | Flip Chart Fairy Tales — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:05:34 +0000

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By: broadstuff

broadstuff — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:38:46 +0000

The many Dunbar numbers

I wrote this article on the Agile Elephant blog, but as not everyone who floows me follows Broadstuff, it may be interesting to people here. In essence, there is more than 1 Dunbar Number: Dunbar actually theorizes there are a number of Dunbar Numbers,

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Dunbar's Numbers and Organising for Social Busi... — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:19:24 +0000

[…] Robin Dunbar predicted that c 150 people demarcated the boundary of the number of personalised relationships we can have (Dunbar’s Number), by estimating when the amount of time required to keep a personal relationship going (the “transaction cost” of a personal relationship if you like) hits the wall of time available. This number varies, some argue that it’s nearly double that of 150, but it’s of this approximate order of magnitude (and we suspect situation dependent on the transaction cost of keeping any one relationship going). […]