Why Flattening Your Organization for AI is the Wrong Move

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Org flattening is being sold as an AI workforce strategy, but it solves the wrong problem. Middle managers are not coordination overhead; they are the human infrastructure that makes collaboration across departments and competing priorities possible. The real issue in most organizations is underskilled managers running poorly designed processes, and the solution to that is investment in leadership capability, not elimination of a layer. The organizations that will succeed with AI integration are the ones whose managers have the skills to lead effectively at every level, not the ones with the fewest layers.

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