INTRODUCTION
The Leader in the Middle
One of the most difficult leadership positions in business today is also the most common: the “leader in the middle.” Leading from the middle simply means you lead a team (sometimes many teams of hundreds of people) and simultaneously report to someone as your boss. And how many people do you know who do not answer to anyone? It doesn't matter what their titles are: vice president, senior account executive, manager, director . . . It doesn't matter if they work for a Fortune 500, mid-market company, university, hospital, construction firm . . . It doesn't matter if they're part of a high-technology business in the cloud or legacy brick-and-mortar analog brand.
Simply put, if you lead people and answer to ...
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