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Why Middle Managers Need to “Fire” Themselves as Supervisors

Great Leadership By Dan

They not only sabotaged their own careers, but they retarded the development of promising developing Coordinators. According to Charon, Drotter, and Noel, from their classic book The Leadership Pipeline , the most important things middle managers need to do are: 1. Many of them tried to combine their old jobs with their new jobs.

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The Leadership Pipeline

CEO Blog

The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. Moving from technical proficiency to planning, delegation, coaching etc. Interestingly, I started my career here. It is a must read for any aspiring leader at any level. I like Ram Charans books.