AA253 - The Delayering Disaster: Why Cutting Middle Management Is Blowing Up

Episode notes

Meta and Amazon are cutting managers, but is it efficiency or chaos? Is de-layering, or flattening your org chart, good for a company, or is it a recipe for destruction? Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Coach Om Patel as we wade into the murky pool that is the latest of corporate trends - "un-bossing" or the mass sacrifice of middle management and mid-level coordination roles on the unholy alter of efficiency. While the biggest of big companies are slashing layers to reduce costs and empower the IC (individual contributors), we take a more nuanced look, arguing that without proper system redesign, this approach leads to decision bottlenecks, leadership vacuums, and the collapse of career mobility.

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