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The Dark Side of Metcalfe s Law

Metcalfe s Law states that the value of a telecommunications network increases

exponentially with its size. In the 1970s communications were largely limited

to telephone calls, telexes, and telegrams; on average, executives had to deal

with fewer than 1,000 of them a year from people other than coworkers. That

number rose dramatically as new technologies spread: We estimate that

executives today receive an average of 30,000 external communications every

year. And the more senior an executive, the more time subordinates must spend

filtering, organizing, and coping with all those messages and conversations.