[scruple]

It also doesn't help that, at least it seems that, most organizations are, or are close to becoming, manager top-heavy these days.

[paulkearney]

The only point I'd disagree with is "these days". Overmanagement is the perennial problem in my experience. More do'ers less say'ers is my proposed solution.

[scruple]

That's true. I wrote that because I was thinking specifically about the concept of the PMC and the estimate I recall reading in the WikiPedia article.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional-managerial_class