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by ineedasername 2499 days ago
It goes back further than the 1980's. It had its advent with the rise of business/managerial "science" that thought trained middle & senior managers could become standardized units of productivity to be swapped in & out of any position as equivalent units. It left out the fact that good managers have strong knowledge of the operations under them and the business as a whole, not just a managerial rule book.