The effectiveness of management plays a pivotal role in steering a company toward success. However, in numerous organizations, a recurring challenge emerges at the middle-management level: Leaders ...

Middle managers serve as the liaison between the leadership team and frontline workers. Their role is especially critical in implementing new initiatives, ensuring communication flows between ...

Middle managers play a key role in driving equity and inclusion, including setting clear equity and inclusion goals, prioritizing education and championing inclusive practices. To foster a workplace ...

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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 ...

Leaders who looking to accelerate growth and implement sustainable change may find the answer sitting right in front of them. Now more than ever, CHROs and other executives are losing sleep over the ...

When it comes to investing in your company’s future, equipping your middle managers with the necessary leadership development strategies can make or break your business — and your team’s morale. To ...

What does it mean when a person or a culture is said to have a we/they issue? The most common explanation of we/they is when someone positions themselves positively (or at least neutrally) while ...

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Good morning. Lily Mae Lazarus here, filling in for Ruth Umoh. In the pursuit of speed and efficiency, many companies have aggressively trimmed layers of middle management. Chief executives like ...

Companies are hemorrhaging their organizational glue. The data shows this isn't burnout—it's systemic collapse of a critically misdesigned role. Sarah Chen had been a middle manager at a Fortune 500 ...