Every few years, corporate executives call for a " Great Flattening ," arguing that their organizations have grown sluggish from the weight of over management, duplicate roles, and bureaucracy. Back in 2023, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg coined one of the tech industry's favorite tongue twisters when he said at a company Q&A session that he didn't want to see a management structure governed by "managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the