KAZIM LADIMEJI | March 16, 2015

Middle management is an important stepping stone on the road to becoming a senior vice president, executive vice president, or C-level executive — but it’s also an unforgiving and fairly precarious place to be, and you shouldn’t hang around there too long. Research shows that middle managers are not exactly held in the highest regard by senior managers, and, subsequently, it’s one of the first layers of the company to be culled when firms fall on hard times. Middle management is also extremely competitive, and you can easily be overtaken by others while on the route to the top.

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