On 2014-02-08 5:13 PM, notbob wrote:
> .... Middle mgt is the biggest waste/drain on
> corporate structure of all time. Astonishingly, it was identified as
> such way back in the 1970 in the brilliant book, Up the Organization
> by Peter Townsend.

And yet both practical experience and multiple studies have shown that
for the military, the optimum span of control is 6-10.

Why would anyone think that the military would be so different from any
other large organization?

-- Larry