Lay off the layers
Well, for the record, BusinessWeek columnists Jack and Suzy Welch (neutron jack, you know …, this time with a bad cold) start off explaining the rationale of the fight against organizational layers, and they go on talking about organizational pathologies and communication problems. Yet and although I’m all for flat hierarchies I don’t follow Welch’s mantra: “Every layer is a bad layer”, this complex world needs more than simple solutions. Here’s the mp3, anyway.
[…] the organizational compulsion to insert layers is just about as inexorable as, say, hurricane season. And it can be just as damaging. The only difference is that layers can be prevented
