Eric Schmidt talks about this phenomenon hapoening at one of his old companies Novell. Middle managers who gatekeep resources or communication between teams to

Eric Schmidt talks about this phenomenon hapoening at one of his old companies Novell. Middle managers who gatekeep resources or communication between teams to make themselves indispensable. Ed Catmull also describes hiring a large number of middle managers when scalung Pixar up for Toy Story 2. Schmidts solution (he claims) is to simply identify and fire these people.