{"id":1767,"date":"2010-12-09T02:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T10:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2010-12-05T02:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T10:07:31","slug":"middle-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2010\/12\/middle-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NPR’s Marketplace recently aired an interview<\/a> with Stanford University’s Professor Nicholas Bloom on the topic of middle management. It was ridiculously hilarious to me, a professional manager for the past many years, that someone even thought of studying this topic.<\/p>\n

Companies big or small, Indian or America, pursue pretty much one thing: profit. (There are exceptions; but we can statistically ignore them.) At the end of the day, the owners and investors of the company care just about only the bottom line. What happens in-between are inconvenient business necessities. They therefore ask only one question at the end: which way generates more profit, given the constrains the society imposed on the business (laws, social contracts, environment, etc.).<\/p>\n

And, for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, all businesses created the middle management layer for one compelling reason: it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR’s Marketplace recently aired an interview with Stanford University’s Professor Nicholas Bloom on the topic of middle management. It was ridiculously hilarious to me, a professional manager for the past many years, that someone even thought of studying this topic. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}