By Jill Amstutz, vice president of communications at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).

Let’s face it— middle management is no one’s career goal (or at least no one who reads this blog.) For many, however, it is a necessary stepping stone to organizational leadership. Middle managers, in many cases, are neither the doers nor the deciders in an organization, which is why they often feel stuck and frustrated … like the peanut butter in the organizational sandwich.