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Power to the Middle

By: Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Emily Field
Narrated by: Bill Schaninger
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If you're thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again.

"Middle manager." The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast machine and bureaucracy ruled. In recent decades, midlevel managers became a favorite target for the chopping block—underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer of the organization.

Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, the future demands it. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of what middle managers can and must be able to do. They explain how middle managers are uniquely positioned close to the ground but with a crucial connection to company strategy—enabling them to guide organizations through the current period of rapid and complex change, as well as help to shape the new world of work.

With rich stories and cutting-edge research, Power to the Middle offers a new model for companies to radically alter the way they hire, train, and reward their most valuable asset: managers, the true center of the organization.

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Not much in here

It really is a book about why you should value middle managers more - and not much else. It reads like an HBR article - more ideas and reasoning than facts and practical tools. An article may have been a more appropriate medium.

If you want language, arguments, and stories about why managers are important, it will give you that. Not much else

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