"In a bureaucracy, it’s easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one."
He should have lead with this.
He should have lead with this.
Then see how the bottom line fares. I see three outcomes:
1. Profits are down. Those managers added value after all.
2. Profits about the same. Those managers added nothing.
3. Profits up!! Those managers were dragging them down the whole time. Who knew?
Oh, and additional possible outcomes (IMO both more likely than yours):
4. the company disintegrates into complete chaos and goes bankrupt before the year is half over.
5. the remaining employees self-organize and the more ambitious among them end up doing exactly what the middle managers were doing before.