Middle Management Acumen

REFRAMING MIDDLE MANAGEMENT ACUMEN

The difference between good and great middle management can be measured in nuances. Great managers do what others don’t or won’t do. How fast and smoothly the engine runs depends on deliberate and proactive choices you make each day, many times a day. Great managers approach and blast away barriers. They have conversations others put off, and they don’t let busy work get in the way of truly important tasks.

Time is precious and expensive. Every conversation, every meeting, every instant message, and every email has the potential to engage, excite, enliven, and explain. If you saw a ticker spinning and showing the mounting costs of time spent, would you change how you spent it? This is not an invitation to ...