The CIO is Dead: Long Live the CIO.

Management pundits have been predicting the imminent demise of the CIO role for years. Their premise seems to be that technology has become such an integral and mainstream part of doing business that it is no longer necessary or desirable to have this function managed separately from the other areas of the business. Many companies [...]

Squeezed in the Middle: Do Middle Managers (Still) Matter?

Why do middle managers get such a bad rap? Like Rodney Dangerfield, we don’t get much respect. Both senior management above us and the folks working for us think they know how to do our jobs better than we do. And it’s not an easy act to pull off. Done right, middle management fills the [...]

Don’t be in a hurry to move on to “upper” management, yet.

There are many jobs on this planet that you would dread spending the rest of your career in, but middle-management is simply not one of them.

In a very unfortunate post, Steve writes on AssociatedContent about avoiding “Getting Stuck in Middle Management“; an overall paper that gives you a true reflection of the dreadful reputation given [...]