Power to the Middle By Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Emily Field
- Narrated by: Bill Schaninger
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-18-23
Power to the Middle By Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Emily Field AudioBook summary
If you’re thinking of cutting your midlevel managers in the new world of work, think again.
“Middle manager.” The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast machine and bureaucracy ruled. In recent decades, midlevel managers became a favorite target for the chopping block—underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer of the organization.
Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, the future demands it. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of what middle managers can and must be able to do. They explain how middle managers are uniquely positioned close to the ground but with a crucial connection to company strategy—enabling them to guide organizations through the current period of rapid and complex change, as well as help to shape the new world of work.
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