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by vkou 460 days ago
Sure, and while if you want it to stick, you'll have to get rid of the CEO and the shareholders, too.

Those 10 layers of management work for them, not you. That's why they exist.

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Yes, and that's why they are removing the 10 layers. It's not working for them any longer either.
They are trimming one of them. But the work will likely get pushed down.
And a large amount of that work will disappear because a significant amount of that work is merely maintaining reporting and answering to bosses ad-hoc.

Removal of bosses is literally more efficient because it reduces the amount of work per unit person.

They aren't removing your boss, you still have one, except your new boss (who was your former skip level) will expect all the outputs that your previous boss produced.

From you.

> They aren't removing your boss, you still have one, except your new boss (who was your former skip level) will expect all the outputs that your previous boss produced.

But you do realize that previously, you had to produce outputs for your boss and skip - but now, you only need to produce for skip?

For 2 bosses, the hypothetical low/mid manager has to consider 2 bosses perspectives, 2 bosses politics, 2 bosses promos, 2 bosses peer teams, 2 bosses meetings, 2 bosses technical skill, 2 bosses status reports, 2 bosses committees, 2 bosses ad-hoc demands.

With 1 boss, that work reduces to 1 bosses perspectives, 1 bosses politics, 1 bosses promos, 1 bosses peer teams, 1 bosses meetings, 1 bosses technical skill, 1 bosses status reports, 1 bosses ad-hoc demands.

Removal of 1 boss led to 50% decline in work for 1 low/mid manager. Scale that to 10 low/mid managers, you now have a large amount of time freed up - SIMPLY because 1 single org chart bottleneck has been removed.

If your boss was any good at his job, he did most of the reporting and communication to keep the skip level happy.

Either he wasn't, or you are just not aware of all the work he was doing.

A good manager is a shit umbrella. Most of my managers have been good.