Compartmentalize
How division of labour affects your business
Mafia bosses or anyone else who requires secrecy for their business to run smoothly always compartmentalize everyone's work. That means the person who is working on one thing will have no idea about the rest of the business, even at higher levels of the hierarchy. It is only the boss who knows how all the parts work and how they fit together.
Here's the good and bad of this system:
Boss maintains full control
People can focus on their work fully
Difficult to cultivate leaders that could be successors
People work blind. They could overlap if boss is not careful
So, if you want to cultivate leaders, this may not be the best way. You would do better with giving more responsibility and visibility, just above their capacity.
If this is the only way your business will work, then its even more important to start cultivating leaders early.
That is one system you need for long term survival of your business.
We could think of teams or departments as compartments. In fact, some study showed there is a very direct correlation between team structure and its resulting activity.
If this helped you, forward it to one business owner you know. That’s how we grow.