Core Leadership: Redefining Middle Management to Create Self-Reliant Teams

The secret to success in middle management? Less is more.

That is, less of you is more. That’s because, as a manager, your success is measured by how effectively you clear pathways to growth for your people, eventually building teams that work without you.

Yet, when great individual performers are promoted to management, they are often surprised to find that knowing how to do is not the same thing as knowing how to teach, or even more importantly, how to lead. And that can be frustrating. Mid...