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THE LAW OF THE SMALL TEAM
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organizations.
—E. F. SCHUMACHER1
Picture this. It’s 1997 and you’ve just had a great idea: a slim handheld device that’s small enough to slip into your pocket and that can perform multiple functions at the touch of a fingertip. It will serve as a portable telephone, an address book, a map, a navigation system, an airline boarding pass, a music or movie player, a television set, a camera, a flashlight, a dictation machine, a stopwatch, an alarm clock, a translation machine, a remote control, a repository of the world’s newspapers and magazines, a library of thousands of books, and more. Moreover, the device will be lightning-quick in its responsiveness and ...
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