How Middle Management Kills The Economy

To the tune of trillions of dollars, honestly.

There tends to be two approaches to the idea of middle managers:

1. This is where the real work is done and the trains keep moving.

2. They’re mostly sucking halfway-decent salaries and doing absolutely nothing.

There are other perspectives on middle managers, sure — but most tend to fall into those two camps. (1) is usually what middle managers say about themse…