Week 7 — The Thinning Pipeline Problem: Middle management has been stripped. The talent development engine has stalled. This week examines what that means for senior leaders navigating authority, decisions, and leverage in a thinner organization.

Restructuring creates a development debt. The people who were being shaped inside the middle management layer are now executing without that infrastructure. Senior leaders who ignore this don't just lose talent — they lose leverage. This episode frames talent development not as a generosity but as a compounding mechanism, and asks where the debt is accumulating on your team right now.