top-heaviness

Even foundations with built-in sunsets (the Gates Foundation has a 50-year spend-down) are not necessarily protected from administrative top-heaviness.

The Best Way to Really Give Away Money 2010

Similarly to the Barbie franchise, making girls and women believe for decades that the perfectly-proportioned body would be one that would make a real woman keel over from top-heaviness, one cannot help but wonder what young girls and tween-girls are thinking when they see these images.

Archive 2009-10-01 Renee 2009

Similarly to the Barbie franchise, making girls and women believe for decades that the perfectly-proportioned body would be one that would make a real woman keel over from top-heaviness, one cannot help but wonder what young girls and tween-girls are thinking when they see these images.

New “Old Navy” Commercials Offend…Just About Everyone Renee 2009

At least someone out there knows how to avoid top-heaviness in at least one important way.

Afstan: Romania one of the six doing combat 2007

But all these stories do not by themselves establish that the problem of corporate top-heaviness is being addressed.

FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003

By the 1980s, many observers were beginning to note the obesity of U.S. managerial structures—their top-heaviness, their inertia, their flab, their redundancies.

FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003

The picture somewhat exaggerates the top-heaviness of the benefits because the bins widen as you move right.

May 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

Apparently reflecting the top-heaviness of U.S. corporations and the extensive supervision of middle-level managers and supervisors, the Hay Group found in a broad 1988 survey that “the attitudes of middle managers and professionals toward the workplace are becoming more like those of hourly workers, historically the most disaffected group.”

FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003

The picture somewhat exaggerates the top-heaviness of the benefits because the bins widen as you move right.

May 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

A second strand of reform would aim obliquely at the top-heaviness of corporate bureaucracies.

FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003