-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/2021/10/02/why-companies-need-middle-managers] The article is