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{{a|office|}}It is a curious fact that the further up the multi-level marketing pyramid— sorry, I mean ''[[org chart]]'' — you go, and as the practical utility of line management dwindles to zero,<ref>AN impassioned essay about that [[reduction in force|here]].</ref> so too increases your likelihood of having ''multiple'' line managers: usually one is designated the proper one, and the others simply “dotted” reporting lines, but organisations with a taste for the byzantine my introduce bi-modal coverage matrices say — by division and region — meaning the same person can be reporting fully to two people at once. And of course there is that old ''investment-bank-as--the-cruel-jungle'' staple, the co-heads of a business, where lucky support staff report to a two-headed credit-claiming, and responsibility-ducking hydra, rather than a single individual.