Bayer CEO’s Management-Free Model Tests Corporate Limits With 90,000 Employees
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer is conducting one of corporate history’s most ambitious organizational experiments under CEO Bill Anderson. The company’s “Dynamic Shared Ownership” model reportedly has 90,000 employees working without traditional bosses in a bid to eliminate bureaucracy and save billions.
The Great Flattening Goes Radical
Major corporations worldwide are increasingly cutting middle management layers in what analysts suggest is becoming known as the “Great Flattening” trend. Companies including Amazon, Meta, Walmart, UPS, and Estée Lauder have made headlines for reducing management hierarchies in pursuit of greater efficiency, according to industry reports.
