There were too many layers of management in the company.

这家公司管理层太多。

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This empowerment has been part of the trend towards downsizing: reducing the number of management layers in companies.

这种授权已经成为了缩小规模趋势的一部分，也就是要减少公司的管理层级数量。

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Hierarchical Model - all businesses have a hierarchical structure that represents the management layers.

层次模型——所有业务都有代表管理层级的层次结构。

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While it means fewer overt layers of management, people face an exhausting number of daily meetings.

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When Elop arrived at Nokia, 11 layers of management separated him from an individual engineer.

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It took an outsider, Lou Gerstner, to unravel six layers of management and put IBM back together.

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