The document discusses challenges facing middle managers in organizations and strategies for addressing them. Middle managers must balance strategic and operational concerns, support group work while eliciting new ideas, and challenge established views to help organizations adapt to changing conditions. They play a key role in ordering priorities and facilitating changes in perceptions that allow organizations to evolve.

1. Management, Middleness and the Emerging Organization ILA 2007 Conference Springfield, IL October 10, 2007 Kathryn J. Deiss Content Strategist, ACRL

2. Supporting work Photo by Giorgio Vargiu

3. The story we have told ourselves… Photo by and darling

4. Photo by olivander Leading and managing in the 21st century

5. Releasing a degree of control Photo by Lawrence Alan

6. Photo by TheShiftedLibrarian Supporting group work

7. Eliciting new points of view Photo by richpompetti

8. Changing perceptions Photo by wvs

9. Challenging mental models Photo by TheWall2K

10. Photo by kencamp Helping to order importance

11. Photo by Soupboy Photo by second.row_11 Balancing the strategic and the operational

12. Playing and experimenting Photo by matthewmcinerney

13. Kathryn J. Deiss [email_address] And now, say hello to Dara Gocheski and Rana Salzmann!