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Solving the mystery of the miserable middle management
Too much is heaped on middle managers, with too little support. The irony is that if companies try to reduce their workload, they start to worry.
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In an era of exponential disruption and transformation, it is the middle managers who are bearing the brunt of it, says the writer.
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Ask a child to name something that starts with the letter M and you might get McDonald’s – their definition of a happy place.
But ask a working adult the same question – you could get a different answer, because for middle managers among us, M could well stand for Miserable Middle Management – a far less happy place to be.
