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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000.

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