I’ve had a change of heart about managers. Something that seems to have gotten lost in the Managers Are Good or Bad debate is the necessary function that managers serve. They organize efforts, solve problems, mediate disputes, and perform many other valuable jobs.
The presence of managers in a company isn’t a bad thing. No company can have a completely flat organization because that would lead to chaos. There has to be someone in charge – someone who is responsible for different departments like accounting, sales, customer service, and quality control. If no one had responsibility for certain tasks or if everyone had the same responsibility to make sure every task got done, hardly anything would ever get done.