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> Here's a simple question that should be answerable in any approach to org design. What's the optimal span of control for management at each level in the organizational hierarchy? If you can't answer this question, you can't "design" an organization.

This seems so wrong to me. It is the equivalent of stating that unless you can specify the values of all the hyperparameters up front, you can't claim to 'design' a neural network architecture.

All you really need to iterate on (this aspect of) the design of an organization is a way to tell when the span of control is too large and when it is too small.