Related:

Malcolm Gladwell, Annals of Business, "The Sure Thing," The New Yorker, January 18, 2010, p. 24 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_...

Paywall. Apologies.

"In an economy such as the United States, where start-ups are revered, people who would make perfectly good project supervisors or salespeople establish their own companies, starving the ecosystem of middle managers."

That's just what America needs -- more middle management.