A Must Reads for the mid-level manager—the key linchpin in managing the hybrid workforce, leading innovation, developing talent, communicating in every direction, and helping people adapt to an ever-changing world.

• Middle managers are a core and large HBR audience. This is an opportunity to curate—and flag—a volume just for them, addressing issues that are core to mid-level managers.
• Aims to ease what can be a difficult balancing act between excelling at your daily tasks while coaching and leading your people, distilling and clearly conveying messages (both large and small) in every direction, and being both a member of the org and a representative of your org to your people.
• The ideal volume will cover leading teams, employee engagement and development, communication, leading change, innovation, and strategy execution. Content mix will include research-based pieces to ground advice/their experience and practitioner interviews to inspire.

Audience: Mid-level managers, the people who lead teams but also maintain a high-level of performance as individual contributors. Secondary audience of HR and senior leaders looking to understand and support managers in the middle.