- Gives insight into how to turn middle managers into strategic change
drivers
- Focuses on how to tap your middle management-maximizing the value
gained from investments and resources already on hand
- Furnishes a field-proven model for developing, integrating, and
tapping the middle management resource
- Provides clear step-by-step directions on how to apply the model in
real work places
- Includes guidelines, tips, and pitfalls based on years of experience
with making the model work in a variety of organizations and
industries
- Contains case studies, success stories, and in-depth interview
excerpts that bring the concepts and approaches into the real-world
Throughout
the late 80s and 90s many companies fell victim to the downsizing trend.
Of the companies that downsized by removing middle managers 66% found
productivity declined, 49% found profits did not increase, and in 86%
morale plummeted. Middle managers often provide your most important link
between top management, operating staff, and your customer. Yet this
valuable resource is often stereotyped, skipped over, and avoided as
deadwood and blockers. Why make this expensive and critical mistake?
Mining the Middle Ground: Developing Mid-Level Managers for Strategic
Change presents an applied, field-proven model for the roles,
responsibilities, and steps necessary to develop, integrate, and mine
your middle management resource for strategic change. Founded on a
strong theoretical basis, the model has been developed and refined over
the past 15 years and implemented in over 100 organizations. Case study
examples, success stories, and interview excerpts lend support and
explain the various aspects and steps involved in the model. Anecdotal
examples and in-depth interview excerpts support and illustrate the
concepts and steps involved.
Successfully enabled and cultivated, mid-level managers can be your
company's strongest resource for knowledge creation, breakthrough
thinking, and change leadership-and they are readily available to you.
Developing and tapping this resource is an option you cannot continue to
ignore. Stop wasting the valuable resource middle management represents
based on stereotypes and low expectations. Raise your sights, actively
develop and involve them, and you will discover that this group is a
vital, unique asset for strategic change. Mining the Middle Ground:
Developing Mid-Level Managers for Strategic Change shows you how to make
it happen.
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