For those of you who have been checking in from time to time to see the latest post, you are about to see a lot of changes. For our new readers, welcome! I hope you enjoy the archives, and come along for the ride as we evolve from the Strategic Middle Manager format to a more inclusive, broad-based format we hope appeals to a broader scope of managers. Ultimately, we will point this site to our ‘under-construction’ site called Manager Musings. There will be more information about this exciting change to come. But for the moment, I want to simply explain the reason for the change as best I can.
One thing that is constant in our world is change. In this instance, the change will be good. The reason for the change is quite simple. I woke up one day and had an “Aha!” moment! Yes, I have heard of others having these moments, and I so longed to have one of my own! Simply enough, this “Aha!”‘ was the fact that I had achieved the height of my reach and realized I was not reaching high enough. Does that make any sense? Let me explain: Let’s just take the name of the original blog and site: Strategic Middle Manager. How ’strategic’ was it to aspire to middle management? The more I pondered the name, and the more I examined my personal desires to go beyond my current station in life, the more I realized how non-strategic I was being in having such a self limiting web site. Not only was I limiting myself to be relegated to middle management, I was not marking a path, or doing anything to blaze a trail for anyone else to follow! While middle management is an honorable and valuable position to be in, do we always want to limit ourselves to top out in the middle. Not this gray duck! We need more goals. I needed more goals. Higher goals. The great motivational speaker and author, Brian Tracy stated “…people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do.”

This quote lit a fire under my butt and put me back on the track I jumped off of several years ago. Now, with a renewed interest, and clearly defined goals, we are moving forward with this new look. Not only will changes be made to this blog site, but changes are occurring in my personal and work life as well. Some of these changes will be referred to in future posts, while others are personal, but hopefully evident by the renewed passion for achieving my higher purpose.

Come along with me for the ride as we share our “Manager Musings.”