The Integration Principle: Why Structure, Not Talent, Is Killing Your Product Velocity
In the early 1900s, as the Industrial Revolution scaled, organizations faced a paradox: the bigger they got, the slower they moved. Managers assumed the solution was rigid hierarchy — clear chains of command and centralized decision-making. For manufacturing, it worked. For modern multidivisional organizations building hardware-software ecosystems, that same structure has created a new form […]