Good article, but isn't Inward, Holistic, and Outward just new names for Lower, Middle, and Upper management?

I agree on the small company analysis - I'm in a small company transitioning to a mid-sized company, and having a difficult time of it. As a small company, we called the divisions "Engineers" and "Overhead". Everyone who wasn't working directly on projects was overhead, from the president / founder to the administrative assistants. We debated for a full month about hiring someone to occupy the receptionist's desk (eventually we justified it for security reasons).

Now, we have to add layers of management, because 50 engineers can't self-organize the way 10 could, and the projects are getting bigger. However, the old distinction remains, and the engineers start grumbling about the managers doing nothing but adding to their ranks monthly. To make it worse, when someone is slapped with a Lead Engineer label, they are eventually yanked out of the engineering side of the building and put in the management side.

It's good to see where this is going, even if management may not realize it yet.