Outside Looking In

Middle managers often are excluded from important development opportunities based on assumptions that are dispelled here.

Business leaders and HR professionals agree that effective midlevel leadership is essential for consistent strategy execution, and recent research underscores the need—and urgency—for strong leaders in the middle ranks. DDI's 2014 Global Leadership Forecast found that nearly half of the 13,000 leaders and 1,500 HR professionals who took part in the survey rat