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The Strategic Middle Manager: How to Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage
An exceptional job of refocusing the middle manager's role?a mustread for practitioners and educators alike.
--Jack Viega, editor, The Academy of Management Executives
In their quest to become leaner, flatter, and reengineered,organizations have systematically cut out the very positions thatonce made them successful?mid-level managers. In The StrategicMiddle Manager,management experts Steven Floyd and Bill Wooldridgedraw on a decade of research involving over 250 middle managers todemonstrate that the success of future organizations restsdecisively on strong middle management.
The authors present the tools managers need to:
* Redefine their roles
* Increase their strategic value
* Secure their futures
* Identify the top performers in the ranks...and much more!
Far from lacking perspective, middle managers have a unique,pivotal perspective that places them at the forefront oforganizational change. They can play the role of champion,synthesizer, facilitator, and implementer--and this book gives theadvice needed to energize management. A must-read for trainingprofessionals, managers, and top executives, Floyd and Wooldridge'swork will radically redesign--and drastically improve--yourorganization's effectiveness.
--Jack Viega, editor, The Academy of Management Executives
In their quest to become leaner, flatter, and reengineered,organizations have systematically cut out the very positions thatonce made them successful?mid-level managers. In The StrategicMiddle Manager,management experts Steven Floyd and Bill Wooldridgedraw on a decade of research involving over 250 middle managers todemonstrate that the success of future organizations restsdecisively on strong middle management.
The authors present the tools managers need to:
* Redefine their roles
* Increase their strategic value
* Secure their futures
* Identify the top performers in the ranks...and much more!
Far from lacking perspective, middle managers have a unique,pivotal perspective that places them at the forefront oforganizational change. They can play the role of champion,synthesizer, facilitator, and implementer--and this book gives theadvice needed to energize management. A must-read for trainingprofessionals, managers, and top executives, Floyd and Wooldridge'swork will radically redesign--and drastically improve--yourorganization's effectiveness.
187 pages, Hardcover
First published March 8, 1996
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