CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Slimming Management's Midriff
A WIDELY QUOTED ARTICLE in the Harvard Business Review thirty years ago asked, “Is Middle Management Obsolete?” and answered a resounding yes. But instead of disappearing or even shrinking, middle management has been exploding in the last few decades. In many companies the “middle” between the first-line supervisor and the corporate top has been growing three or four times faster than sales, even before adjustment for inflation.
The growth hasn't been confined to big business; middle management in small and medium-size companies may have grown even faster: since thirty years ago many of these ...
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