Judd Antin, who spent 10 years leading teams at Meta and Airbnb, says leaders should invest in middle managers, rather than cutting their jobs in the "Great Flattening." ...

We think of them as petty, powerless, thumb-twiddling bureaucrats. But middle managers are actually the very people who make large companies work.

While flatter organizational structures can increase efficiency, they also introduce new pressure points—especially when ...

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 ...

Corporate America is quietly rewriting the org chart, and the first casualties are the people who used to sit between ...

Global HR analyst Josh Bersin recently said, “In 25 years, I have never seen such low levels of investment and maturity in leadership development.” That’s disappointing news for millions of middle ...

I spent several years of my career in the uncomfortable role of middle manager. On one side, I had executives asking me why my team couldn’t “do more,” and on the other side, my employees told me they ...

Every organisation loves to talk about visionary leaders and agile frontline teams. Yet, between both sits the most ...

While much attention is typically paid to the top of organizations, namely CEOs, having top-performing middle managers is not just “nice to have.” They are a “business imperative” and lead to strong ...

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There's a great scene in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga; I think it was in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The lead characters find themselves on a spaceship full ...

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.