Well, as I'm focusing on business creation and entrepreneurship, it's quite strange if I say "Yes". Middle manager in my opinion is the middle executive level in the very big company who is the middle man (or woman) between top management team and operational employees. Therefore, they are not the real entrepreneur or highest leader in the organization.
However, in the leadership aspect, it is very interesting to study from middle manager. Because they are leader and follower in the same time so middle manager basically will face many dilemmas between 2 roles more than person who has only one role in the organization.
Mica Wulff Kamm, the middle manager from TeliaSonera company, gave us a broader sense of leadership knowledge with her own experiences in the real working life and the first thing I noticed was her energetic and out-going personality during her presentation. It is very impressive and might prove that how she loves her job as well. Moreover, she talked about dilemmas in the middle manager position which we did not discuss seriously during the seminar but it is very important if you are the middle manager. Middle managers must balance the operations and leadership within themselves. They also standing between 2 concepts of re-organization, centralized or decentralized, because they are not the highest management team who always consider about this topic according to the organization's policy. Therefore, the middle managers have to choose the bus (organization), the bus driver(boss), and passengers (members in the team) very carefully to make sure that you have the appropriate working environment and colleagues who will always support you. However, sometimes you cannot choose all of them then I would like to add that middle manager also must adapt themselves according to the environment changing in the office.
Another important topic I would like to reflect is about feedback. Mica insisted that feedback is very important when you work as the middle manager. It is necessary to know that how your colleagues thinking about you. Nevertheless, to accept any feedback the middle manager may received, courage is required. Basically, people always avoid the critic about them and said that it is not true. That is the reason why I think that to accept any feedback, leader must have the very open-minded personality. Unfortunately, they always don't (at least in my own experiences).
Back to the question, Do you want to be the middle manager?
Considering about the dilemmas I may have got, political problems in the organization and also I really would like to create my own company. So, unfortunately, my answer is No.
What about yours?
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