4 management lessons for scaling your team

When my team consisted of 10 people, I could keep track of each team member’s tasks and their capacity. I understood the limits of people’s workload and even the circumstances that might affect their work. I hardly needed to delegate formally: if a task was difficult, I could redistribute the work myself, reinforce someone, or sit down and do part of the task with my own hands. But then we grew to 50 employees, and then 90. Suddenly the habits that had once helped me be an effective leader began to get in the way. Decisions took longer, information was harder to keep aligned across the team...