As we review the impact of middle management on the effectiveness of an organization, discuss the following:

Middle managers are often at the center of efforts to develop tactical plans to implement established strategies.

Discuss how tactical plans are typically established?

Discuss the challenges that confront middle managers charged with strategy implementation?

Beer and Eisenstat identify what they call ‘silent killers’ of strategy implementation and learning.

Provide concrete examples – preferably from your own experience – of how these ‘silent killers’ sabotage strategy implementation.

Discuss why Beer and Eisenstat add ‘learning’ to the list of victims of these ‘silent killers’?

Discuss the fundamental tensions that Dodd and Favaro identify in their article?

Discuss how finding the balance among these tensions impacts middle managers? Give examples from your experience.