tl;dr: Large companies suffer from excess management. As companies grow they add layers of middle management to grapple with the complexities of organizing lots of people. Too often this leads to endless alignment meetings and convoluted decision making. Instead of recommending yet another reorg, the hypothesis here is that companies suffer organizationally because they have a communication problem. Middle Out is a tool that allows employees to see what everyone else is up to and to decide on direction together.