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One Super Power Every Great Middle Manager Masters

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are (or have been) a middle manager, you know how tough this role can be. In this episode, you’ll get practical steps you can take to master one transformational role the best middle managers do better than anyone else in an organization. Middle Manager Super Power. Middle Manager Super Power.

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Why Leaders Need To Develop Their Middle Managers

Eric Jacobson

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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Leadership Training For High-Potentials, New and Middle Managers

Experience to Lead

For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. Each individual must take their own unique mixture of real-world experience and personal talents to forge their own leadership style. Unfortunately, this can be an overwhelming process for new managers to undertake without support.

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You’re a Middle Manager? How Depressing.

Lead Change Blog

Research shows that middle managers don’t get much love. When I was a middle manager – a program director at three different non-profits – I felt this frustration. Middle managers are employees, too! That’s not a healthy environment for productivity, inspiration, cooperation, and growth.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2023 curated just for you. The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity.

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In Praise of Middle Managers

LDRLB

Middle managers don’t get a lot of attention or respect. Even most business satires are targeted squarely at middle managers, think Michael Scott or Bill Lumberg. But leadership happens at all levels. But leadership happens at all levels. In total, that’s about 6 million productivity measurements.

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Leading Thoughts for July 22, 2021

Leading Blog

Former CEO of Honeywell International, Larry Bossidy , on the behaviors a leader should look for in his or her direct reports: “Over the years, I’ve observed that certain behaviors, on the part of both the subordinate and the boss, are conducive to productive and rewarding relationships.