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The Power Of Middle Managers In The Workplace

Eric Jacobson

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. The authors define middle managers as the people who are at least once removed from the front line and at least a layer below the senior leadership.

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How Middle Managers Can Distort Strategy

The Horizons Tracker

Middle managers often get a bad rap, but research from Wharton shows this is unfair. The study highlights how important middle managers are for a company’s success. The research suggests that middle managers may have more impact on a company’s performance than any other group.

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How to Lead with Their Best Interest at Heart (Even When It’s Hard)

Let's Grow Leaders

When It Comes to “Best Interest At Heart,” Not One-Size-Fits-All For one team member—a high-potential middle manager—it meant, taking their idea seriously. What followed was eye-opening. Because each answer was completely different.

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How Middle Managers Handle Stress During Times Of Change

The Horizons Tracker

Middle managers are crucial during times of organizational change. This puts them in a tricky position, managing their own stress and uncertainty while guiding their teams through new directives. Responding to change The study found that middle managers generally respond in one of two ways: they either cope or “cop out.”

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How Leaders Can Create A Culture Of Significance

Eric Jacobson

For example, one poll found that middle managers only spend about 28% of their time actually managing their people. Today, "more" competes for their attention than ever. More platforms, notifications, and instant connectivity have pulled many leaders away from their people.

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How Can Automation Impact Strategic Decision Making?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examine the so-called flattening, whereby organisations strip out layers of middle management, and ponder how AI impacts the structure of decision-making within organisations that have gone through this process.

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Employees See Middle Managers as an Organization’s Moral Compass

Harvard Business Review

More frequently, however, respondents provided recollections about their own bosses (current and former) and the tangibility of how these middle managers made a meaningful difference in the lives of their teams and upheld the moral compass of their organizations.