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"1) Communication breakdown. Multiple offices in multiple locations and no one knows what other people are working on, how much progress they have made and how what they are doing fits into the overall scheme of company goals.

2) Productivity vs. time spent in office. The office can be a wasteland for productivity and time spent in an office building does not directly correlate to more productive progress.

3) Creativity is implicitly discouraged. Creative talent is vastly undervalued, misunderstood and malnourished. The default American workplace murders creativity.

4) Inefficient management. Inter-office politics and personal agendas often influence executive decision making more than shared company goals. "

These are all signs that you need better Middle Management, not less of it, and not sex with it.