Middle managers are at the forefront of a profound organizational transformation. Once considered a cornerstone of organizational hierarchies, roles like team leaders, project managers, and sales ...

Middle manager under strain as leadership requests various things from him. Middle managers are often overlooked, overworked, and underappreciated. Yet they may be the most influential leaders in ...

Alvaro Munevar Jr. leveraged middle management jobs to help him retire early from his tech career. Now, Big Tech companies are culling middle managers, a reduction that Munevar Jr. said makes sense.

One cloudy morning last March, an associate dean for faculty affairs booted up her laptop for a standing meeting. “Elaine” (a pseudonym) was leading an ambitious new project — a core pillar in the ...

Corporate America has found a blunt instrument for cutting costs: remove the people in the middle. Across sectors, companies are stripping out layers of supervisors and project leads, betting that ...

Middle managers role in managing up, down and sideways can be crucial to deal success. Middle managers are the Rodney Dangerfield of business. They get no respect. Despite the critical role middle ...

I spent several years of my career in the uncomfortable role of middle manager. On one side, I had executives asking me why my team couldn’t “do more,” and on the other side, my employees told me they ...

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Nancy Murphy is CEO of CSR Communications, a consultancy specializing in the human dynamics that make organizational change possible. To continue reading this content ...

I spent nearly all of my 30-year tech career in middle management. I managed teams that built and delivered web and mobile business applications. I intentionally stayed in the middle management ...