Strategy & Leadership

Preventing a "frozen middle": How to engage middle managers to close the strategy implementation gap

November 29, 2017

Global

November 29, 2017

Global

Q&A with Bharat Anand, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and John Seifert, Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather.

In a global survey of 500 corporate leaders conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit,1 respondents pointed to middle and line managers as potential impediments to fulfilling strategic ambitions. The EIU interviewed Bharat Anand and John Seifert to explore the nature of— and solutions to—challenges in engaging the so-called frozen middle. Learn more by downloading our Q&A below. 

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