BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Adenrele Onikosi M.CIoD, MCIPM, FITD, LDS.
Corporate Governance | Digital Transformation | Board Member | Executive Leadership Coach | Learning & Development Leader| Organizational Transformation
In this edition, I wanted to reiterate the importance of middle management by sharing with you thoughts from the book titled #PowerToTheMiddleBook authored by Bill Schaninger, Ph.D. a former senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey, Bryan Hancock and Emily Field both Partners at 麦肯锡
This is culled from the McKinsey's website: Power to the Middle | McKinsey & Company
The term “middle manager” often evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast machine and bureaucracy ruled. In recent decades, midlevel managers—underappreciated and often considered a superfluous layer of the organization—have become a favorite target for the chopping block. This view has become so widespread that it has seeped into the very identity of the managers themselves.
Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, but the future also demands it. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Emily Field, Bryan Hancock, and Bill Schaninger call for a profound reimagining of what middle managers can and must do. They explain how middle managers act as key players in an organization’s competition for talent, how they possess the granular knowledge and perspective necessary to lead the realignments resulting from digital disruption, and why good managers must be given higher-value compensation instead of being promoted out of their jobs.
With rich stories and cutting-edge research, Power to the Middle offers a new model for companies to radically alter the way they hire, train, and reward their most valuable asset: managers, the true center of the organization.
#PowerToTheMiddleBook
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I recommend to all senior management and board members to get the book and let it be a redirection tool for the ways we see middle managers with our different organizations.
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