As all the records and layoffs happen the regular employees from the boron of the organizational pyramid always get cut, while multiple layers of useless management get to stay. Will they ever figure out that this is the road to disaster?
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Honeywell tried that once and even told us serfs that it was to flatten the management structure. They got rid of Technical Managers and within 90 days, added Senior Director above Director. So, everyone in the management chain below the newly created Senior Director position got demoted 1 step. Now they pay even more money to even more incompetent and arrogant fools than they did before. Get out now while you still can.
Flatter? Next you will want leaders to learn peoples names! Do farmers name their cattle? No and for good reason. You are a letter and seven digits. You are a job code. You are a resource and your time is a product.
We don’t name cattle.
This sounds like one of those b$ arguments to justify laying off managers and having 50 people report to each remaining one.
Here is a secret, successful organizations have about 8-9 people per manager. Otherwise you don't have any real management.
Accepted.
Consider Kongo Gumi.
They eventually became a subsidiary of another firm in 2006 but had a pretty good run at 40 generations of continuity attributed to strict merit based succession.
1400yrs and they are still in business.
I think it was good market choice.
buddhist temple construction and the growth industry of the black plague era.. coffins.
Dare... Dare...
Lifecycle of every conglomerate.
Milk it until a disruption occurs.
Been this way since they were doing books on clay tablets.
Dare I ask.. can you name a conglomerate company with similar length of history behind it that is different?