I wouldn't say that, those are the managers responsible for executing a business strategy. If they don't show desired results you're probably right, but if the

I wouldn't say that, those are the managers responsible for executing a business strategy. If they don't show desired results you're probably right, but if they do then they'll probably be trusted to decide who to get rid of under them and still show desired results. Can they fire a whole team and replace them with an offshore team? Replace a vendor/product they use or get rid if a product/feature and still show results? If so, all a company cares about is money so they're pretty safe.