Allometric Scaling
Growing organizations must change shape, not just size - management overhead and structural support must scale faster than headcount, just as elephant bones are proportionally thicker than mouse bones.
Beyond metabolic and physiological scaling, morphological scaling (how body proportions change with size) follows allometric rules. As organisms grow, they don't maintain geometric similarity (isometry) - they change shape to accommodate square-cube law constraints. Limb bone diameter scales as body mass^0.36 (not mass^0.33 which would be isometric). Larger animals have disproportionately thicker limbs.
Business Application of Allometric Scaling
Organizations similarly change shape as they grow. Structural overhead (management layers, compliance functions) must grow faster than headcount to support the organization's weight, just as elephant bones must be proportionally thicker than mouse bones.