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Die "Dunbar-Grenze" und ihre Auswirkungen auf Kanzleien

Offenbar gilt es, beim Kanzlei-Management auch neurophysiologische Erkenntnisse zu berücksichtigen:

Many law firms may have inadvertently reached a tipping point that is triggered by innate human limitations. Drawing upon his research on primates, the British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar posited that "there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size." For humans, the "Dunbar number" is 150. In 2007 exactly 18 law firms in The Am Law 100 had fewer than 150 partners -- and tellingly, these firms tend to fill distinctive niches and reap very high profits.

So weit, so gut.

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Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).