Middlework: Unlock the Underestimated and Unappreciated Secret to Success

by Matthew Hart

Stop Hating the Middle, and Embrace What It’s Secretly Doing for Your Company! Let’s be There’s nothing we like more than beating up on middle managers. They have a reputation for being useless at best, and at worst, the resource-sucking noise that cripples a company. But recent studies have found that there’s a secret sauce to great companies who get great results, and its not just great workers or great leaders. Instead, it’s great middle management that is holding complicated, messy, sophisticated endeavors on track. From the characteristics of great middle managers to the work they must do to ensure successful results, Matthew Hart covers what it takes to be truly great at the Middlework.

140 pages, Paperback

First published June 5, 2013

About the author

Matthew has been involved in the global technology industry since 1998, which is interesting given his degree in History. He made his name in the database industry co-authoring six technology books, all of which sold well under a million copies. He has also been in various positions of leadership, running software development teams and generally getting all kinds of interesting things done. Raised in Idaho, he spent a decade in Colorado before settling into Kansas City where he currently lives with his family and whatever critters have set up shop in the basement and/or attic. Matthew is currently the Vice President of Technical Business Solutions at Arise Virtual Solutions.

“The Last Iteration of Dexter Maxwell” is his first novel.