Dr. Tom Blue’s book, High Time for Change, available as an eBook off this website, shows how a missing Midlevel holds the key to an organization’s stability, profitability, and long-term success. Tom’s Blog (see Menu) contains interesting snippets, based on his book. As an engineer, attorney, and head of industrial psychology at Case Institute of Technology, A. B. Cummins once noted, Anyone fortunate enough to have experienced this explosion of talent and energy has seen the unblocking of…basic human drives.

Yet without a qualified person to staff this group level, quite the opposite happens. As the psychologist Solomon Asch found, conformity gets in the way of an organization’s success. Sigmund Freud found this conformity rooted in a death drive that finds pleasure in what is most painful. For instance, social psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that many coworkers harm each other, if so ordered. Psychiatrist and researcher Elliott Jaques referred to such a work setting as an unpleasant paranoiagenic zoo.