With ten people, the company moves fast. Decisions happen in conversations. Information travels instantly. The founder knows everything relevant because they are three desks away from everyone relevant. A problem surfaces on Monday and is resolved by Wednesday. The speed feels like a product of the team's talent and energy. It is not, primarily. It is a product of size. At one hundred people, the same team often smarter, better-resourced, more experienced moves more slowly. A

Hard work is not the problem. It never was. We had a generation that went to the battlefield, the ones who worked hard on the farm, the ones who worked every day and night at the factory.

Nothing else is as decisive as the calendar when it comes to company time, not the strategy deck, not the mission statement and sometimes, not even the quarterly goals pinned to the wall of the conference room.

Isn’t it interesting how the working hours are basically moving from Notion for notes to Asana for tasks, Slack for communication, Trello for projects, Asana missed, a time tracker, a focus timer, a to-do list app, and a habit app for the habit of using your apps?