[scottlocklin]

I used the example of Google because it is a particularly productive company on a per-employee basis for a large company in a way that can be measured. Not that I think Google is awesome: I think they should be broken up, and its employees should consider their life choices that they continue to work for the Great Satan. FWIIW they have more like 100,000 employees.

The older I get, the less I believe in crap like Price's law. It sure seems like this in large and old organizations, but I can never point to the actually productive people. Some people appear to do nothing in a large group, but the group then falls apart when they leave/retire. In smaller groups, it definitely, trivially doesn't work like this.