the.com/middle management
the human buffer between vision and reality, absorbing blame in both directions.
means the layer of managers who translate executive strategy into tasks for workers, and worker reality back into excuses for executives.
from emerged with 20th-century corporate hierarchies, formalized by mba programs teaching that companies need translators between the boardroom and the floor — someone had to run interference.
blame absorptioncatches heat from above and below simultaneously
peter principleoften the level where competence stops rising
meeting densityspends more hours in meetings than doing actual work