Middle Way Management: Where Compassion Meets the Bottom Line

By Darin R. Molnar PhD

Compassion is not the opposite of accountability. It is what makes
accountability possible.

In March 2009, Darin Molnar began publishing a management framework in the
open, one essay at a time. He promised the book in 2010. This is it.

Middle Way Management refuses both extremes an American organization offers a
manager. Control produces fear, and fear produces bad work. Abdication
produces chaos - a genuinely kind chief executive who holds no one to anything
can bleed forty percent of his people a year. The middle is not the average of
those two. It is a third thing, and it is harder than either.

Built from forty-one essays, a validated assessment instrument, and thirty
years in the job, this is a practice with standards attached:

- How to hold someone to account without being cruel
- How to reach the person you cannot stand
- How to manage upward when your boss is not decent
- How to decide whether to stay
- How to be the place where the fear stops

It is written for the manager with eleven people, a number to hit, a boss with
a boss, and a mortgage. It is a practice for the building you are actually in,
not the one you would have designed.

Includes the Middle Way Management Assessment Instrument: twenty-five
validated items that measure management as the people on the receiving end
actually experience it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHS74SFX
• ISBN13: 9798171793548
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"