Middle Management Survival Guide

About the Book

Middle Management Survival Guide© is intended to be a survival guide for anyone who calls him or herself a middle manager.

All too often the wisdom that flows to the middle managers of this world descends from the lofty heights of academia.

By point of contrast, Middle Management Survival Guide © flows from the trenches where middle managers carry out their craft. It is a book grounded in common sense and aimed at creating a world-view and mindset for middle managers that will enable them to better combat the daunting forces arrayed against them.

From the perspective of a middle manager this survival guide describes the impossibility of the workplace and the paucity of the tools traditionally available to managers. Most importantly this book provides specific strategies, attitudes and values that will help managers maintain balance and sanity while improving their overall performance as managers.

The author has worked as a middle manager for the past twenty years. Tasting both the sweet fruit of success as well as the bitter gall of failure he has acquired a unique insider's view of the daunting task faced by those who call themselves middle managers.

About the Author

Kevin McMahon has worked for more than twenty years in the middle management trenches. He has known success and more than his share of failure. His insights into the world of middle managers are derived from his day-in-day-out experiences as a middle manager, nothing more, nothing less.