I've said this for a while: the solution to the management hell that we currently have is to bring back secretarial roles. The introduction of the personal comp

I've said this for a while: the solution to the management hell that we currently have is to bring back secretarial roles. The introduction of the personal computer into the workplace basically killed off the secretary, and spread ~50% that work over everybody else, especially management. So we bloated management to cover that. The problem is that when your secretarial work is being done by the people with the power to fire the ICs, you end up putting excess value on the secretarial and organizational work. So instead, bring back the secretaries. A separate org vertical (i.e., they don't have hiring/firing power over ICs), which handles the secretarial half of your current managers' jobs, and isn't paid more than your engineers. The engineering decision-making half of the job (along with hire/fire power) should be handed over to one or two senior engineers, who are now the actually powerful ones in the engineering branch of your org chart. This keeps your technically talented people working in technical roles. Basically, instead of C-suite C-Suite / \ / \ M M EM SM / \ / \ / \ / \ M M M M E ES S / \ / \ / \ / \ E EE EE EE E