Imo, the biggest problem with management is too many hierarchical levels. Whenever there is too much hierarchy, each manager in the hierarchy tries to impose so

Imo, the biggest problem with management is too many hierarchical levels. Whenever there is too much hierarchy, each manager in the hierarchy tries to impose something below them to show their own "impact". Each manager tries to do better than their peers by forcing it down the ladder. Often the stakes for managers are too high - aka, they need to constantly justify their existence. They are not really producing any output so their existence is only justified by creating more policies or implementing their boss's policies. With each level comes additional policies - all of which get dumped to the leaf node workers who are actually producing the output desired by the company. But these policies are putting additional burden on output producers, thus bringing output to a grinding halt. The common theme for such management is that the only thing that matters is "optics". The only types of managers that can survive this kind of environment are the sociopaths who don't care about anything but their OWN existence - which leads to all the behaviors pointed in the article. 1. Self-centered 2. Input-focus 3. Afraid of failure 4. Information hoarder An easy solution to all this nonsense is to reduce the number of levels. But I have only seen this at Netflix, Roku and a few startups in the past.