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Strategic InsightSunday EditionAugust 20, 2026 12 min

Operating Leverage and the Hidden Cost of Middle Management Latency

This memo analyzes the decline in marginal utility of mid-level oversight and provides a framework for reallocating payroll toward direct revenue production.

Operating decisions, framed the way an owner has to make them.

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