Corporate America has found a blunt instrument for cutting costs: remove the people in the middle. Across sectors, companies are stripping out layers of supervisors and project leads, betting that ...

Judd Antin, who spent 10 years leading teams at Meta and Airbnb, says leaders should invest in middle managers, rather than cutting their jobs in the "Great Flattening." ...

About 18 months ago, my team and I decided to survey more than 1,000 middle managers and found that many hate their jobs. No wonder, no one wants to be a middle manager anymore. These leaders are ...

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Middle managers used to command lots of respect. They were considered an indispensable part of a company – the problem-solvers, the peacemakers, the glue that kept teams together. But in recent years, ...

In December 1968, astronaut Bill Anders captured a photograph that changed how humanity saw itself. As Apollo 8 emerged from behind the moon, Anders snapped an image of Earth rising above the lunar ...

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Manufacturing systems are increasingly challenged by intricate product architectures, global market volatility and rapid technological progress. Complexity management involves the systematic ...

Middle managers get a bad rap. Blamed for being bottlenecks, pilloried as bureaucratic and ineffective, and painted as the “bad bosses” who send good talent running, they often bear the brunt of harsh ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ami Vora, a 31-year-old former Big Tech employee. The source's full employment history is known to Business Insider but is not named to protect ...