I recently recorded a video  on the "Great Resignation." There are so many bad takes in the business media about this phenomenon, which imply it's mostly about white collar workers contemplating their corporate existence in between zoom calls, that I felt I should try share some

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Domineering leaders reinforce domineering behaviors across the organization. This is hardly surprising.  Advancement in organizations is almost invariably a product of zero-sum “promotion tournaments.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory] In such a system, domineering, cutthroat behaviors are the norm, not the exception.  Unless we make structural

The management column (Bartebly) in this week's The Economist makes the case that managerial hierarchies are valuable & inevitable, and flat organizations represent a "false utopia:" Why companies need middle managersOrganisations embrace flat hierarchies at their perilThe EconomistThe Economist [https://amp.economist.com/business/2021/10/