[w-j-w]

Many people complain about how good individual producers, but few talk about effective front-line managers being moved to where they are less effective. In organizations it's often assumed that the best managers need to be near the top of the org chart to spread their effectiveness as far as possible, but I contend that these great managers might be better off near producers in critical areas.

[cma]

Since hierarchies are usually exponentially shrinking in headcount towards the top, this shouldn't have a significant impact numerically right?

[marcosdumay]

Very competent people are pretty rare in large organizations, once you factor in their environment.

Do you put your one best performing manager at the top or at your most impactful project? (I'm not sure about the answer, but I'm not sure it a real option exists either.)