The Great Flattening: When AI Removes the Leadership Spine
From The Norm Report: Venturing into the Big Shift · 00:20:03
Show by Norm E. Murray
Organizations are getting flatter, and most leaders are calling it cost optimization. It is not.AI now schedules teams, tracks deadlines, generates performance reports, and answers the questions middle managers used to handle. Korn Ferry reports that 41 percent of employees say their organization cut management layers in the past year. Gartner expects roughly one in five companies to use AI to eliminate more than half of their middle management roles.But middle management is not just overhead. It is the interpretive layer that carries authority, information flow, and culture through the enterprise. Remove it, and all three begin to reorganize in ways few leaders have mapped.In Episode 37 of The Norm Report, the Psycho-Technology Series, Norm Murray examines what the great flattening really changes inside an organization, why the spine of leadership is at risk, and what senior executives should do before the new structure sets. The episode closes with the mitigating playbook.Go deeper at normemurray.com.
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