I suspect it will never happen, but I would love to work at a company that has front-line managers and recognized "thought leaders", and nothing else at all, mo

I suspect it will never happen, but I would love to work at a company that has front-line managers and recognized "thought leaders", and nothing else at all, most of all - no middle managers, little to no concept of "promo work", etc. Once you remove the incentive for managers to grow their org (because there's a point where managing more people directly becomes infeasible, or at the very least - painful), you'll have little to no politics, no more constant re-orgs, etc. Wishful thinking, I know...