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The Middle Manager Is Disappearing: Are You Ready to Become a Player-Coach?
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AI and flatter organizations are creating a new kind of leader: the player-coach.
For decades, the career ladder rewarded people for moving away from the work. A good engineer became an engineering manager. A good salesperson became a sales manager. A good teacher became an administrator.
That progression brought status, income, and authority. It could also separate people from the work that made them valuable in the first place.
Now organizations are getting flatter. Teams are getting smaller. AI…
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