Playing with half of the pieces

Customers often want things because competitors have dangled them in their faces… such “discovery of customer wants” does not provide the basis for strategy; it represents a failure of strategy - Book of Certain To Win, by Chet Richards

I was always wondering what if I could play chess games only using half the pieces while doublethe moves with the guy who beats the hell out and robs like tens of points from me on FICS. Somebody has told me that if I can convince one to do so, it is almost certain that those points will find their way back. Of course I mean if. Officially if he seriously kicked my asses like that, the odds is small that he will buy this...

The point is, if you play with half of the pieces, an organisation would likely be able to double its decision making and execution speed, within the range of capability. This might also be the logic why companies like Google advocating 'lots of small companies' philosophy. WIth half of the pieces, the overhead, amount of message passengers, management internal friction and conflict of interests will certainly decrease accordingly. I have not got the scientific datum as backup, but decrease at rate of log2(n) would be my first bet. 

The other fact always amazes me is the importance of space, or empty. Without half of the pieces, you find your leftover pieces suddenly become alive. There are much less unnecessary barriers, much better chances to maximise the (attack or defence) potential of each piece. With the appreciation of speed, one can easily manuover his pieces into positions and always, whilst no surprise, secure the importan places on the board before his competitor. Whether you are planning, throwing money, getting extra hands, buying more buffer for delivery date, at the end of day, time, is really the only thing that matters, and one thing you can pretty much project everything else down to.