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Adding ants to a puzzle makes it get solved faster while adding humans makes it worse, unless the humans are carefully aligned.

Drawn from what Eric Ries said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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  1. Eric Ries

    Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible

    The more ants you put in the puzzle, the faster the solution. But the more humans you add, the worse. Unless the humans are very carefully aligned, this is the key lesson for organizational design.

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