I spent nearly all of my 30-year tech career in middle management. I managed teams that built and delivered web and mobile business applications. I intentionally stayed in the middle management ...

Global HR analyst Josh Bersin recently said, “In 25 years, I have never seen such low levels of investment and maturity in leadership development.” That’s disappointing news for millions of middle ...

Middle manager roles should evolve into more of a mentoring function, focused on coaching less experienced staff and educating others for continued development. In 1930, there were around 235,000 ...

Plenty of managers enter the leadership pipeline, but poor onboarding and performance management can slow progression and ...

Middle managers have been the punching bag of the workplace for some time, with employees increasingly seeing their direct superiors as meddlesome, obsolete, and taking credit for their work. But it ...

Middle managers are at the forefront of a profound organizational transformation. Once considered a cornerstone of organizational hierarchies, roles like team leaders, project managers, and sales ...

A week ago, a Fortune 500 executive shared something with me that left me speechless. She said: "I used to love this job, but now I have nightmares about situations and conversations that might or ...

Companies keep talking about flattening their ranks. Midlevel bosses might be 'squashed.' AI is changing the game when it comes to climbing the ranks at work. AI has taken the corporate quest for ...

As AI reshapes how work gets done, Meta and Block are doling out new job titles without the word 'manager.' ...

The conversation around the scarcity of women in leadership positions often focuses on the C-suite, but companies shouldn’t overlook the payoffs of pursing more gender diversity in middle management.