880: How to Thrive and Succeed as a Middle Manager with Bill Schaninger

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bill Schaninger explains why middle managers are critical to an organization’s success—and shares powerful principles for better leading.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why middle managers are often underappreciated

2) The number one thing middle managers should be doing

3) The simple secret to retaining top talent

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— ABOUT BILL —

Bill Schaninger is a senior partner in McKinsey's Philadelphia office. He advises CEOs, government ministers, and senior executives on organizational health and improvement. He is McKinsey's expert on the power of culture, values, and leadership in improving business outcomes. He holds an MS and PhD in management from Auburn University and an MBA and Bachelor of Business Administration from Moravian College. He is a coauthor of Beyond Performance 2.0.

• Book: Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work

• Article: "Help your employees find purpose—or watch them leave" with Naina Dhingra

• Email: Bill.Schaninger@gmail.com

• LinkedIn: Bill Schaninger Ph.D.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 879 with Bill Channinger.
0:23.0	Bill has a wealth of insight from the lofty levels of McKinsey partnership to down in the trenches to what middle management truly means.
0:33.0	We got a wealth of insight coming from Bill on how middle managers can flourish, succeed, thrive, make a bigger impact, lead their people effectively, and how to think more broadly about empowering middle management to be effective in any given organization.
0:49.0	So learn one why middle managers are so often underappreciated to the number one thing middle managers should be doing.
0:56.0	And three, the simple secret to retaining top talent.
0:59.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to bits that we mentioned here, please visit us over at awesome at your job dot com slash ep 879.
1:08.0	And while you're there, I recommend you check out our gold nugget email list, which gives you summary wisdom, the actual insights that Bill shared in a quick email.
1:17.0	You can read in about two or three minutes.
1:19.0	And when you sign up, you also unlock the whole archive, the vault of 879 of these gold nugget summaries.
1:25.0	We got that and more good stuff for you over on the website awesome at your job dot com.
1:31.0	Now here's a bit about Bill Bill Channinger is a senior partner in McKinsey's Philadelphia office.
1:36.0	He advise a CEO is government ministers and senior executives on organizational health and improvement.
1:42.0	He is McKinsey's expert on the power of culture values and leadership in improving business outcomes.
1:47.0	He holds an MS and PhD in management from Auburn University and MBA and bachelor of business administration from Arabian college.
1:54.0	He is co-author of Beyond Performance 2.0 as well as power to the middle.
1:59.0	Why managers hold the keys to the future of work?
2:02.0	Big thanks to Bill for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.
2:05.0	Check them out.
2:07.0	One sponsor to check out is Stanford Continuing Studies.
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