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Fortune
Fortune
George Pesansky

Surviving the Great Flattening: The coming extinction of the middle manager

Middle manager (Credit: Getty Images)

We all know the line usually (and wrongly) pinned on Einstein that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. But here’s the thing few people in business truly understand when it comes to the products and services they deliver: “The enemy of delivering quality is doing different things yet expecting the same result.”

Improvement requires change; quality requires consistency. The art of leadership is knowing when to do which and building the muscle to do both on purpose.

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