Ville Houttu, the Founder and CEO of Vincit California, explains how removing middle-management in their 450 employee public company increased organizational efficiency, agility, and profitability while improving employee satisfaction.

1. Removing Middle Management
from Today’s Workforce
Ville Houttu, Passionate CEO
Leadership as a Service

2. 120
2013
EMPLOYEES
YEAR

3. V
Team
Managers
Teams
HRSales
VV V V

4. 🙁
Team
Managers

5. V
Developers
HRSales
💩
V
🙁
🙁
🙁

6. People OperationsSales

7. Functional teams
People OperationsSales

8. Trust Transparency

9. WINNER 2016 + 2015 + 2014
Workforce 2015
Game Changer
HUMAN CAPITAL MEDIA
(HCM)
Company of the
Year
2014
OP AND KAUPPALEHTI
Best Place to
Work in Europe
2016
GREAT PLACE TO WORK
Ruban
d’Honneur
2011
EUROPEAN BUSINESS
AWARDS
Rising Star
2013
DELOITTE
Best Place to
Work in Finland
2016
GREAT PLACE TO WORK
Best Place to
Work in Finland
2015
GREAT PLACE TO WORK
Best Place to
Work in Finland
2014
GREAT PLACE TO WORK

10. $15M
$30M
$45M
$60M
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
* 9 Months

11. ”
Most organizational behaviors are
repeatable and common.

12. Managers - Workers
2014

13. There are 23 million managers in the
American workforce.
One manager for each 4.7 workers.
”

14. 111 million Americans workers
spend 16% of their time on internal compliance
Which equals to annual waste of almost
9 million worker years.
”

15. In summary:
Adding 1.4 million people to value-creating
activities, would boost GPD by
$3 trillion.
”

16. Management ≠ Leadership

17. Leadership as a Service

19. Bottom - up, instead of
Top Down

20. Transparency and Trust.
The more you trust your employees, the more
they trust you.
The more your employees trust you, the less they
need to be managed.
Ville Houttu
Passionate CEO
ville.houttu@vincit.com
”