Thomas Allen found communication frequency collapses with physical distance. Here is what the curve says, what replication found, and what it means for hybrid teams.
A B-player hire isn't a 10% cost. It's a multiplier on every adjacent role's output ceiling. Top performers recalibrate to the lowest tolerated standard, then quietly leave. The math is brutal.
Action creates information. Deep work converts it into judgment. The people learning 5x faster with AI oscillate between the two. Here's the mechanism.
Presence is the cheapest workforce signal a CEO has. It is also incomplete. The leaders running the strongest companies pair presence with a daily signal stack that makes output legible, in any work model.