> But the elephant in the room went untouched: the middle managers. Microsoft occasionally does a "flattening" exercise where they go around and reduce the num

> But the elephant in the room went untouched: the middle managers. Microsoft occasionally does a "flattening" exercise where they go around and reduce the number of managers that exist. Put a year moratorium on promotions to manager (sucks, existing managers get way overloaded), then a year later do another stack ranking exercise.