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Why Middle Managers Need to “Fire” Themselves as Supervisors

Great Leadership By Dan

According to Charon, Drotter, and Noel, from their classic book The Leadership Pipeline , the most important things middle managers need to do are: 1. It’s one of the oldest and most frequent recipes for failure! Managing managers is way different that managing individual contributors. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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The Leadership Pipeline

CEO Blog

The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. Moving from technical proficiency to planning, delegation, coaching etc. This is great for stimulating thought but may cause an intermingling of thought on my book reviews. I like Ram Charans books.