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Middle management is the constraint in African corporates
Strategy rarely fails at the board. It fails in the layer expected to translate it into weekly work.
Executive teams across the continent invest heavily in strategy formulation and comparatively little in the management layer responsible for execution.
Middle managers are typically promoted for technical delivery and then asked to lead without preparation, structure or coaching support.
Organisations that invest deliberately in this layer see the return in execution speed, retention and the quality of their future executive pipeline.