The laws of business are not unlike the the laws of the jungle.
It's a constant struggle for survival in a world filled with predatory employees at all levels of the food chain, I mean organization. One miscalculation and you'll end up as some body's breakfast. Or worse yet, their subordinate.
This is what recently happened to a friend of mine. She had been working as a manager in her department for about a year when a couple of c-levels and her superior offered her a promotion. She would get a senior manager title but her current group would be split into two groups, half of which would continue to work for her in a new department and the other half would stay in the current division under new leadership. So essentially she would have less people to manage and get more compensation for it.
A year later, a different set of c-levels and her new superior decide that the groups are not working as well apart as they did together. The group that stayed in the original division would have to move into the new division.
Ok so at this point it seems obvious that the other group would roll back under said friend, since a year earlier that was the structure. But the jungle is a treacherous place with lions and tigers and rats! OH MY!
Instead, it was decided that said friend would be managing 3 managers who would then be managing the rest of the group. Except for this 4th group that was going to be managed by another senior manager, at said friends level, who in turn would be reporting to the new superior.
On the surface it sounds like said friend got a hell of a deal. With the exception of having someone as a pier where as before said friend was the only senior manager. Then there is that whole being elevated to a middle management job of managing managers. Oh and there is that whole no compensation aspect of this too.
Whoever coined the phrase, "it's a jungle out there", really wasn't kidding.
