Many large organizations are removing layers of middle management in an effort to operate leaner, faster and with fewer bureaucratic barriers. However, while flatter organizational structures can ...

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Companies are hemorrhaging their organizational glue. The data shows this isn't burnout—it's systemic collapse of a critically misdesigned role. Sarah Chen had been a middle manager at a Fortune 500 ...

Middle managers serve as the liaison between the leadership team and frontline workers. Their role is especially critical in implementing new initiatives, ensuring communication flows between ...

Corporate America is quietly rewriting the org chart, and the first casualties are the people who used to sit between executives and front-line staff. As layoffs accelerate across sectors, companies ...

Middle managers might have a poor reputation but without them visionaries wouldn’t be free to focus on a company’s aims. Bureaucracy isn’t always a negative thing – and efficiency isn’t always polite.

We think of them as petty, powerless, thumb-twiddling bureaucrats. But middle managers are actually the very people who make large companies work.

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AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI is transforming the way businesses operate, but successful adoption isn’t just about technology – it’s about people. Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint’s ...

I spent several years of my career in the uncomfortable role of middle manager. On one side, I had executives asking me why my team couldn’t “do more,” and on the other side, my employees told me they ...