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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by Spooky23 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:25PM (#34295704)
What manager or director decided to fund & hire a data scientist with a charter to function as an internal consultant? Or did you hire yourself or co-found the company?

A lot of managers are paper pushers instead of leaders. Their usefulness varies depending on circumstances.

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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by juhanima on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:14PM (#34295948)
Maybe no manager or director at all? Sometimes things happen in an organization in a self-organizing manner. Like people finding out who is able to help them with their problems and the word getting around.

It is actually my experience that the organizations which are able to organically evolve like this are the most effective ones.

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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by civilized on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:28PM (#34295998)
Honestly, the best thing about my company is that the managers mostly don't get in the way of this organic process if the people involved have demonstrated they know what they're doing.
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