There’s a reason no one ever wrote a play called “Death of a Regional Sales Supervisor”: There’s no dramatic tension – neither comedy nor tragedy -- in middle management. Just hours of pointless meetings; fruitless wrangles with HR, IT and other acronymical nuisances; and resignation to a couple more decades of the same, unless one is lucky enough to get promoted up a rung or two on the corporate ladder, or, maybe even better, demoted back to a lower rung where it all made more sense.

Say, wait a sec, I think I can do something with that. Maybe there’s dramatic tension in middle management after all. #Tipsfor2012Grads