You can't be a manager without anyone to manage.
There's a lot of perverse interests and incentives at play.
There's a lot of perverse interests and incentives at play.
You can be an exec with 10-20% fewer random products/departments in your company, and maybe 40% fewer middle managers in the rest of them. You might even get a nice bonus for cutting all that cost! Bonuses for growth, bonuses for "efficiency" when the macro vibe shifts. Trim sails and carry on.