Lol if the market were left to decide there would only be smaller companies with relatively flat hierarchies specifically for the reason you mention...
"Once a business gets beyond 100 employees, top management begins to lose touch with what's going on in the trenches. At that point, the supervisors commence to build their own prestige by gradually increasing the number of people they supervise. They create a "need" for more help when, in fact, they need to quit acting like lords and masters and perform more of the nitty gritty themselves."
Bottom up driven companies would also be fairly common but by no means the majority, nor should they be as they are in general far less efficient suffering many of the same problems of a bloated bureaucracy because they lack individual decision makers relying instead on .
The reason why the large corporation is king is 100% the product of government. First because of Limited Liability protections and absentee ownership created by securities rules (imposed by government) and second because even a mid sized company with 1000 employees cannot afford to hire an entire legal team to ensure that they remain in compliance with all of the government regulations that govern them, this creates pressure for corporations to grow beyond a size that can be adequately managed by it's founders and so bureaucracy grows with it
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Date: 17/11/10 17:17 (UTC)"Once a business gets beyond 100 employees, top management begins to lose touch with what's going on in the trenches. At that point, the supervisors commence to build their own prestige by gradually increasing the number of people they supervise. They create a "need" for more help when, in fact, they need to quit acting like lords and masters and perform more of the nitty gritty themselves."
Bottom up driven companies would also be fairly common but by no means the majority, nor should they be as they are in general far less efficient suffering many of the same problems of a bloated bureaucracy because they lack individual decision makers relying instead on .
The reason why the large corporation is king is 100% the product of government. First because of Limited Liability protections and absentee ownership created by securities rules (imposed by government) and second because even a mid sized company with 1000 employees cannot afford to hire an entire legal team to ensure that they remain in compliance with all of the government regulations that govern them, this creates pressure for corporations to grow beyond a size that can be adequately managed by it's founders and so bureaucracy grows with it