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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

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I N Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work , authors Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field contend that middle managers are crucial to the new world of work. They came to realize that they needed middle managers more than ever. What kind of qualities and skills does the job require?

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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

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W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Doing so requires CEOs to not only reinvent themselves and their organizations but also to rethink their executive teams.

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Three Skills Managers Need in a Post-Pandemic World

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Caught in the middle of all this were managers, the face of the organization to their teams. Over the past 15 months, managers spent a considerable amount of effort mediating and negotiating on behalf of their teams to their business and from their business to their teams. Virtual Presentation Skills.

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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

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Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Evaluative people can execute and sustain ventures. Idea people are more comfortable with risk.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

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V ISIONARY THINKING is the ability to see the big picture, envision what the future could look like, build a plan to achieve that vision, and lead yourself and others down the path of execution. Having visions and being able to execute them will have an impact on the success levels you’ll achieve. They never do it alone.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

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You can become an empathic leader whether you’re a new manager, a C-suite executive, or you’re simply leading by example in any job even if you don’t manage anyone. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types. It is also for tough people in any field.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

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Quiet firing” came about in response to it, describing the passive-aggressive behavior of managers who withhold opportunities from quiet-quitters instead of firing them altogether. Usually, they’re being made within your executive team. Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company.

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