I was very concerned about having too many organizational layers. I set a goal of having only two layers of supervision between me and an entry-level person anywhere in the company. While that number increased to three layers and in a few cases four as the company grew to more than 30,000 people, keeping the number of layers to a minimum is important to make work fun. Each layer tends to block communication and other interaction in organizations. It also separates people at one level from those at another, sometimes physically and almost always in status. Each layer requires another leader,
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