The ideal human groupings
At our deepest level, we are primates. We are intensely social. We feel best in groups. We love to be touched. In fact, when given the choice primate babies will take touch over food.
One of the huge breakthroughs for humans is that by developing speech we learned to groom at a distance and hence could expand the size of the social group
The ideal human groupings are seen in all military organizations.
•8 the core group
•15 the ideal team
•30-50 the normal tribe or platoon size
•150 - the maximum that can self organize
These are called Magic Numbers and they are the social scaling that is hardwired into humans
If you ignore these natural laws for human organization, then you have to impose a structure. Hence the modern bureaucratic workplace and hence helplessness and dysfunction
- Rob Paterson
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