Chapter 6
Involved Midmanagement
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
—Peter Drucker
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. Hey, there’s a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let’s bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn’t have been massacred. Who says middle management is useless?
—Adam Engst
The Evolving World of Middle Management
In the 1990s, many firms eliminated midmanagement positions and replaced them with computers.1 One of the most common terms for this was “delayering,” which is standard code for “eliminating ...
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