Dunbar’s number suggests one can have the tightest inner-circle of 5 people, 15 good friends, 50 friends, 150 meaningful connections, 500 acquaintances and 1500 people that one can recognise.

Efficient managers suggest – through their experiences – that they are effective when they have about 5 to 9 direct reportees. More than that and there’s a drop in efficiency as well as effectiveness.

Small businesses plateau at sales of between Rs 5 crore for services companies and about Rs 50 crores for trading-oriented entities.

The point being,

There is a numerical limitation to meaningful connections, efficient team sizes and scale of individual-led small businesses!

Technology solves this!

Software systems overcome these limitations by enabling scalable communication, automating routine tasks and providing tools to manage business relationships and operations effectively – allowing businesses to expand much beyond the scenarios where there’s little to no technology in business operations.