AI Is Making Bigger Management Spans Practical

As AI takes over coordination, reporting, and routine supervision, one manager can directly support more people, cutting layers of management and speeding up decisions.

The old story of managers not having more than 7-8 people reporting directly to them is outdated, costly and inefficient. The age of AI has a different expectation of being hands-on and how much work a single person can do. It is also more inefficient to have layers of managers
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