Many managers are caught in organizations with multistrategies - making leadership more demanding, more complex, and more frustrating than ever before. Now, successful authors, consultants, and researchers Stephen Stumpf and Thomas Mullen cover the critical skills middle-level managers need to learn to become more involved in strategic planning. Taking Charge presents a series of frameworks that can alter the way you think about issues, help you to define things in ways that are more acceptable to others, and begin a development process than can lead to new skill proficiencies.