Great Series on Spatially Relevant: Stuck in the middle

October 21, 2007 in Marketing, blogging, business, corporate america, middle management
Tags: career, leadership, management, Marketing, middle management, product management, work

 

Stuck in the Middle: A series of lessons in leadership and execution…

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

So I’ve had the opportunity to see a great deal of management and leadership styles over my career. This series will provide hopefuly and interesting views coping, surviving and ultimate enjoying work with a little humor as a member of middle management. I’ve all kinds of roles/areas of …

Stuck in the Middle: The Vassalizer…

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

As I continue to look at leadership tactics and styles, one of the more interesting management personas is the Vassalizer. A leader can be an all-in Vassalizer or only possess some of the traits, depending on their skills and ambitions. The root of the word isn’t …

 

Stuck in the Middle: Fence Mender

Friday, September 14th, 2007

I appreciate Robert Frost’s questioning of why fences make good neighbors in Mending Wall. It seems like a construct at opposition to getting along and a free existence. It is however, not so in more effective business, groups and organizations. Many leaders and individual contributors are very focused …

 

Stuck in the Middle: A changing reality…

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

USA Today did a piece that says most people think middle management sucks – more access, more work, more meetings…. Yup and more opportunities, learning and influence on the organization. Work life balance indeed. So I had a boss once that said “don’t whine – get a new job”, he …

 

Stuck in the Middle: The Visualist

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

A good amount of people in most workplaces work a real day’s work, but there are few/a small handful that believe being a pass-thru entity who provides verbose email updates qualify as work. The visualist is mainly focused on visibility and will eagerly sign up for any action. …

 

Stuck in the Middle: The Amoeba

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

It takes all kinds of leadership styles and ameoba is generally a kind, well intention and fairly good manager with limited creativity. To just baseline on the core object which is the metaphor for this leader: a•moe•ba also a•me•ba n. Any of various one-celled aquatic or parasitic protozoans …

 

Stuck in the Middle: The Collaborator

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

The Collaborator sorta sounds like a super hero – not so much, but I can see the spandex garb in my head, so I’ll run with it. The collaborator is an interesting leadership persona – on the surface it is a label, mode of operation and general concept which is good …

Stuck in the Middle: The Geologist

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

As part of the stuck in the middle series, I will develop multiple personae for examination – the first one is “The Geologist”. The Geologist can be a leader or an individual contributor, the actions of each are on opposite poles of detail. The Geologist as a leader, says “Bring me …