
Stuck in the Middle #33: Leadership: It’s Not a Trait, It’s a Relation
Leaders are constituted through structural relations and individual choice, but most conversations about management erase the structural half, treating it as pure individual agency based

Stuck in the Middle #32: Employees aren’t bad potatoes
It has been nearly 6 months, but the newsletter is back. I am revising the newsletter’s focus a bit to make it more practical and

Stuck in the Middle 33: Do We Need Managers?
The recent rounds of layoffs, which have hit middle managers particularly hard, have raised an important question. 1 Do we even need middle managers anymore?

Stuck in the Middle #32: Narrative for Individual Change
I have gotten some feedback that what I have been writing has been too dense and not actionable enough. This week, I am going to

Stuck in the Middle #31: Thinking Differently About Change Management
In past newsletters, I have reviewed several books on the transindividual, and while those were densely theoretical, I am now working on making them more

Stuck in the Middle #30: Mythocracy Part 2
In the previous newsletter, we looked at how Yves Citton defines power (as the flow of desire and belief) in his book Mythocracy: How Stories