"We cut the managers. Who decides now?"

Companies are removing management layers and expecting AI to pick up the coordination work. Uber recently announced about 20% fewer managers, and the average manager now has 12.1 direct reports, up from 10.9. Of employees whose company removed layers, 43% say leadership alignment got worse.

AO angle: removing layers doesn't redesign who holds authority. You could run a live decision-flow mapping exercise, drawing on your Beer/Jaques autonomy-hierarchy work.