[jarin]

I had something along those lines happen at a company I worked at a few years ago, where the CEO was a notorious micro-manager. In desperation, I ordered him a copy of 37signals' Getting Real.

He apparently read it over the weekend, because the following Monday he announced at the managers' meeting that he was enlightened about project management now. Of course, he just latched on to one idea out of the whole book: that the ideal project team size was 3 people.

So what did he do? He drew up a list of 20 or so ongoing company projects on the whiteboard and assigned 3 managers to each project. Since there were around 12 managers, that meant that we ended up co-managing around 5 projects each.