Middle managers are at the forefront of a profound organizational transformation. Once considered a cornerstone of organizational hierarchies, roles like team leaders, project managers, and sales ...

I spent nearly all of my 30-year tech career in middle management. I managed teams that built and delivered web and mobile business applications. I intentionally stayed in the middle management ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corporate America has found a blunt instrument for cutting costs: remove the people in the middle. Across sectors, companies are stripping out layers of supervisors and project leads, betting that ...

Middle managers role in managing up, down and sideways can be crucial to deal success. Middle managers are the Rodney Dangerfield of business. They get no respect. Despite the critical role middle ...

In today’s always-on work environment, clear internal communication isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s a business imperative. Yet many organizations overlook the people most responsible for making it happen.

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Alvaro Munevar Jr. leveraged middle management jobs to help him retire early from his tech career. Now, Big Tech companies are culling middle managers, a reduction that Munevar Jr. said makes sense.