Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016)

Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by IMTDb on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:35PM (#34295773)

One way to lower the cost of managing is to promote transparency within the organisation: allow and encourage manager to read the PR and the discussion around them, this will give them some sense of the progress of the projects. Provide KPI/OKR about the state of the company on a very regular basis, allow and encourage IC to take a look at them. Announce good and bad news on dedicated channels, allow and encourage employees to read them.

Because information is freely accessible, there is less need for dedicated "reporting" processes every time a manager is added into the system.

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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by presentation on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:33PM (#34296030)

Agreed for small companies in certain business contexts, but just “reading through the PRs” doesn’t scale or may not be that valuable to decision makers at different levels of the hierarchy, and not all ICs want to be involved in the decision making. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all option besides having smart people who know what they’re talking about and not going too heavy on process and hierarchy too fast.

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