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#Small teams
Keep divisions small to maintain a start-up mentality
Apple divides itself into multiple autonomous divisions, each with fewer than 100 people. Its campus is even designed in a way that divisions are hidden from others to create the illusion of being a start-up. This has helped Apple reduce bureaucracy, increase collaboration, and promote personal responsibility.
Keep teams small to promote personal responsibility
In each of their offices, Patagonia keeps their employee count to one hundred people, no more. This policy is based on the idea that democracy seems to work best in small societies, where people have a sense of personal responsibility.