Middle Management
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Haroun: Enterprise software faces the most resistance from middle management
“What I found with my last company is sometimes it was like the junior person who's like day to day deep in the weeds. We did really well with, and then actually when we like skipped one or two levels and went to the top, they also really loved what we were doi…”
Feldman: Middle management layoffs stem from SaaS efficiency, not AI
“What I think has happened is this is the delayed impact of good SaaS tools. That what's happened is your ability to extend your reach as a leader and as a manager to stay abreast of what's happening. Your scope is much, much bigger. And so the role of middle m…”
Sanchez: Crying at work guarantees you will stall in middle management
“I'm sorry to say this, but don't listen to anybody else who says, oh, you can cry if you want to. Oh, you can just say your truth out loud. Oh, it's fine. No, no, no, no. Those people will forever rent apartments and at most get to middle management. They will…”
Mark Pincus: MBA jobs at Meta and Google have dried up
“Everyone wants a job at Meta or Google, and that's the get rich quick place, and it's, I don't even think that's necessarily true anymore, and they can't get those jobs because those companies are now trying to get rid of middle management. So those jobs have …”
Chamath Palihapitiya: AI will disintermediate middle management before engineers or customer support
“Let me say something that builds on what Pincus was saying, which is, I think that this is a interesting window into the future of AI in the sense that I think what companies are internalizing slowly, that the first place that AI disintermediates is actually m…”
Kennedy always shares meals with management candidates to judge their character.
“Especially for like middle management, Or above, I always go and eat with them. I always want to share a meal with them. I want to see how they treat the staff. I want to see how long it takes them to bite, to pick what they're gonna eat.”
Polosukhin: AI agent CEOs will run organizations and replace middle management
“I really think one of the most interesting cases is organizations that are run completely by AI, right? Where quote unquote CEO role is taken by AI agent. Who's tasked by, you know, by community or board of directors or whatever is oversight governance is to, …”
Joshaghani: Politics Matters More Than Merit in Large Enterprises
“It's rare that politics doesn't play a bigger role than value creation and merit in the way some of these companies operate. And so, and it's not that they're bad companies. It's just the nature of a company as it gets bigger.”
Makower: Middle management is the impenetrable wad thwarting corporate sustainability
“It's that big, fat, impenetrable wad of resistance called middle management that's often thwarted. They're really adept at thwarting change.”