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For the Twelfth Layer of Management, My VP Gave to Me

Dec 20, 2007

At his Omics! Omics! blog, Keith Robison writes about the joys of corporate hierarchy. (OK, there are no joys. But GTO is trying to be jolly.) "I used to joke at Millennium that I was routinely being demoted. This was obviously so, as the number of people between myself and Mark Levin kept growing," Robison writes. He weighs in on some alternatives some people have proposed to ease the weight of these bureaucracies, but suggests that the most effective solution might actually be to just work at a very small company.

 

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