Today’s Challenge: Leading From the Middle

Today’s Challenge is a weekly post in which I respond to a question submitted by a leader somewhere in the world. Today’s question isHow do I lead if I’m not the senior leader?

Here’s the truth, very few of us are the senior leader. So the question is a good one! This is a daily challenge for 99.9% of leaders. In most organizations, there’s only one leader at the top and a very small percentage of “senior leaders.”

Over the last couple of years, I’ve written about several facets of this questio...