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The True Cost of Hiring Yet Another Manager

Harvard Business Review

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. When the tooth-to-tail ratio gets too low, front-line people find that they have to send every customer request or idea for improvement up through the bureaucracy and wait days or weeks for a response. Limit the caravans.

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