Category

Series B Key Challenges

From Generalists and Doers to Specialists and Managers

Series B Team’s org

Market Practices

🟠: 5-7

Critical

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The Span of Control is the ratio of employees reporting directly to a manager. In a changing organization, you may need to alter your managerial relationships.

Source: An HR’s Guide to Calculating Span of Control - AIHR

Market Practices

🟠 GOOD

5-7, although it can be much larger for some teams (engineering, customer success…).

From Knoetic’s Span of Control Benchmark:

Additional resources

Startup Best Practices 2 - Startup Team Sizes by @ttunguz

At its core, a startup’s advantage in the market is the speed created by focus. When a team is well orchestrated, they can accomplish amazing things. Creating an environment that fosters communication best is therefore an essential part of startup management. But how best to do it? Founders have to balance span-of-control with span-of-managerial-responsibility. In an article this week’s New Yorker, Amazon’s founder/CEO Jeff Bezos is quoted on the subject with a contrarian point of view:

tomtunguz.com