At some point or another, almost every leader will both report to someone above you, a boss,

a manager or a board, and you'll simultaneously oversee leaders below you. Your role is very,

very important, but you're somewhere in the middle of your organization. In the next two episodes,

we're going to talk about middle management. Today's episode, we're going to talk about building the

middle. This is the Craig Groschau Leadership Podcast. Hey, I'm so excited to have you with us for

another episode of the Craig Groschau Leadership Podcast, where we really believe in building

leaders because we know that everyone wins when the leader gets better. If you're new, just now

joining our leadership community, let me tell you what we do. We know that your time is incredibly

valuable. So my goal is to bring high content value in a short period of time every single month,

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important in this episode. I believe it's going to impact a lot of people. Before we dive into the

new content, we always have a lot of people asking about what books have you read, what's helping you

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