Feels like five managers for every person actually doing anything. Someone told me when I started that one percent of people do ninety nine percent of the work. They were right.
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Prices law says 50% of the work in any org is done by the square root of the size of the org. So in an org of 27,000 people about 160 people do 50% of the work. Sounds right.
Yes this is all true. Take a look at how many folks have Director in their title but they don’t have any direct reports. Titles really need an overhaul. You will also see folks being promoted every single year based on their LinkedIn but then majority of promotion requests get denied. Makes you think.
At some point people were being promoted into leadership titles because there was nowhere else for them to move up in their role. So we ended up with a lot of fairly technical people who should really still be in senior positions that aren’t managers or directors. How many times I’m on a call with technical resources but it’s the teams director doing the work. That doesn’t make sense to me.