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“If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer is, during time that is not used up directing day-to-day business. The fact that managers have time on their hands (i.e., their operations tasks take up less than eight hours per day) gives them time for reinvention. The extra time is not waste, but slack. Without it they could function in only their operational roles. Reinvention would be impossible because the people who could make it happen are just too busy to take the time. Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.”

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Book:Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Source: Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

“Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.”

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Book:Eisenhower in War and Peace

Source: Eisenhower in War and Peace

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

“On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.”

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Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

“Middle management is a disease.”

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Author:Massimo Vignelli

“I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

“I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.”

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Author:Tim Gould

“Real management is developing people through work.”

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Author:Agha Hasan Abedi

“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?”