Middle Management Challenge

Middle Managers are being blamed for American business's loss of competitiveness. They're increasingly seen as the "fat" to be cut and trimmed as top management strives to regain its leading edge by merging, purging, and leveraging business. "The Middle Management Challenge", offers insight and ideas about these convenient scapegoats, and uncovers a major cause of the poor competitive performance of American business. They reveal how and why even the best-intentioned firms chronically underutilize, underdevelop, and undertrain their pools of essential managerial talent. "The Middle Management Challenge" combines a research-based approach with an extended case study that explores how senior managers in an actual company effectively utilized the talents of their middle managers. The result is a strategy for giving middle managers the leadership and risk-taking responsibilities to develop into executives.