Math explains middle management

Opinion

Jan 28, 20051 min

Have you ever felt cursed by managerial incompetence? That somehow, someway you always ended up with the worst middle manager in the bunch? The David Brent. The Pointy Haired Boss. The Bill Lumbergh. It’s not your fault.

Mark T.A.W. uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a nifty chart to show why your crap middle-manager of a boss is a mathematical certainty.

Via Waxy.org

Data Center

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

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