About the Book
Promoted to management: Is it a blessing or a curse?
The perception, and too often the reality, of middle management is that it’s a realm where managers find themselves stuck between chronically unhappy team members and disconnected, demanding leadership.
But in Core Leadership, business culture guru Stacey McKibbin offers a very different perspective on the true power of the middle, supported by a wealth of real-world experience helping managers navigate the transition from player to coach, teaching them how to build healthy, productive team cultures.
The author argues that middle management is the critical intersection where a vision of a connected culture based on core values and shared purpose can be translated into the day-to-day reality of an organization’s operations and hardwired into its DNA.
Sharing insider stories from their own experience working with companies ranging from regional, family-owned businesses to international behemoths like Google and Time Warner, McKibbin shares proven and practical advice for managers to reevaluate their true roles, build inspired, self-reliant teams and learn to lead from the middle.
Eventually, in business and our personal lives, we all find ourselves in positions where we must define our success not by our own performance but by the performance of those we lead. This book offers an invaluable guide to finding power in that middle place—the power to inspire the best in others, in organizations, and ourselves.
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