“The Exceptional Middle Manager”
is an essential management book…

…that has been many years in the making. I’ve always loved coaching and helping to develop the managers who have reported to me, along with many others who have been my clients. Many of them have told me over the years that they have really benefitted from my guidance and insights, and I’ve been encouraged many times to capture my perspective in a book. This, at long last, is that book.

The Table of Contents will give you a good sense of the topics that are covered :

Part 1: How Middle Managers Can Think Smarter and Plan Better

  •  Chapter 1:  Setting Goals and Objectives

  • Chapter 2: Beware of Faulty Pattern-Match Thinking

 Part 2: How to Build High-Performing Teams in the Modern Workplace

  • Chapter 3: Hiring: It’s Your Highest Priority

  • Chapter 4: How to Build and Maintain High-Performing Teams

  • Chapter 5: Project Management vs. Program Management

  • Chapter 6: Before You Trust a Third Party with Your Business…

  • Chapter 7: Performance Assessment

  • Chapter 8: How to Survive and Prosper in Exec Presentations

 Part 3 How to Advance Your Career in Today's Job Market

  • Chapter 9: A Smarter Way to Think About Career Progression

  • Chapter 10: Achieving Strategic Advantage When Applying for a Job

Every manager everywhere needs to read this book and follow this game-changing advice. After an impressive and successful career as a business leader and management mentor, Jeff Lyon has shared invaluable insights that can help all of us to become stronger managers and leaders. Buy this book and keep it close at hand for the rest of your management career!

  - Mike Simms, former CPO at Microsoft,
    current CEO of The Simms Group
     current CEO of The Simms Group

The Audio Book

The Audio Book

Note to audiobook readers:
To access copies of the charts and diagrams mentioned in the audiobook, click on The Blog link above.

First, thank you to every person who encouraged me to create an audio version of The Exceptional Middle Manager. I have to confess that I simply wasn’t aware of how many people consume their business books in the audio format these days.

Secondly, my apologies for taking so long to complete the audiobook. I had a lot of competing demands during the past year, and I had to teach myself both narration and audio mastering skills in order to bring this audiobook to market.

It’s such a j0y to be able to say, “I finally did it!”