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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. 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. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S.

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