Emily Field, Bryan Hancock, Bill Schaninger and Lucia Rahilly
Author Talks: What does it mean to be a good middle manager?
McKinsey, 2023
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Middle managers are spending more time on “administrivia,” instead of managing their teams’ productivity.
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In this McKinsey “Author Talks” video, partners Bill Schaninger, Emily Field and Bryan Hancock discuss their book, Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work with moderator Lucia Rahilly. They explain why firms should change how they treat and assign middle managers. Often, companies promote technically gifted staffers to “player-coach” roles with no training and without relieving them of skilled work responsibilities or bureaucratic chores. As a result, required “administrivia” tasks often eat up their coaching and leadership time. To solve this, firms should create separate well-defined career paths for great managers and individual “rock stars.”
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About the Speakers
McKinsey & Company Senior Partner Bill Schaninger and McKinsey Partners Emily Field and Bryan Hancock are the authors of Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work.
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