CHAPTER 3 The Case for Staying in the Middle From Way Station to Destination
Do you believe any or all of the following statements? Does your boss, or your boss’s boss?
The only way someone at a company can truly advance is to be promoted out of their current role.
The importance of someone’s job can be measured by how many people are underneath their box on the org chart.
The more senior the role, the more the person in it should be paid and rewarded.
Outstanding individual contributors should be rewarded with management roles.
Anyone who stays in a middle management role for a long time must not be very good.
Even if you try to consciously reject these ideas, they can be hard to push away. That’s because they are woven into the very fabric ...
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