American businesses have been engaged in a rapid-fire restructuring of their corporate hierarchies. In the name of "flattening," they've been waging war on middle managers — trimming an entire ...

Related stories The solution was to forge a whole new work ethic — one that celebrated the sprawling corporate hierarchies that were swallowing up most Americans. The ideal was no longer ...

Over the past two years, American businesses have been engaged in a rapid-fire restructuring of their corporate hierarchies. In the name of "flattening," they've been waging war on middle managers ...