
What do management consultants do?
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Middle Managers Are Always Going to Be Necessary
Middle managers tend to act as a kind of a disciplinary rod for the central business. And so you have more and more people doing that middle management job, fewer and fewer people doing the actual work. We see that in universities all the time; it's a source of great discomfort and annoyance where their administration is bloated.
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