Middle Way Management: Where Compassion Meets the Bottom Line

Compassion is not the opposite of accountability. It is what makes accountability possible. In March 2009, Darin Molnar began publishing a management framework in the >Middle Way Management refuses both extremes an American organization offers a manager. Control produces fear, and fear produces bad work. Abdication produces chaos - a genuinely kind chief executive who holds no one to anything can bleed forty percent of his people a year. The middle is not the average of >Built from forty-one essays, a validated assessment instrument, and thirty >- How to hold someone to account without being cruel - How to reach the person you cannot stand - How to manage upward when your boss is not decent - How to decide whether to stay >It is written for the manager with eleven people, a number to hit, a boss with a boss, and a mortgage. It is a practice for the building you are actually in, >Includes the Middle Way Management Assessment Instrument: twenty-five validated items that measure management as the people on the receiving end actually experience it.