Mai, then the manager in the production and technology department, ?convinced many middle level managers to stay on, and China Ocean Shipping Group injected fresh funds in 1987.

麦当时任生产和技术部门经理，说服许多中层管理人员留下来。 1987年，中国远洋运输集团注入了新的资金。

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But as the story unfolds, it transpires that his skills as a middle manager are less relevant at board level and his general popularity disguised his less demanding attitude towards team members.

但是，随着故事的展开一些问题显露出来：他作为一个中层经理的技能在董事会层面上并不重要；并且他受大家欢迎掩盖了他对组员较不严格要求的态度。

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The children of the baby-boomers are currently entering their 40s, which creates a secondary bulge at the middle-manager level of Japanese business.

生育高峰期出生的一代，他们的孩子也快步入40多岁的年龄段，这就造成了日本企业的中层管理者再次膨胀。

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First, I may be the worst manager who has ever lived. (If they held a contest, I am pretty sure I would win.) For a couple of years, I was a middle level manager at the largest division of a Fortune 500 company.

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Once upon a time, I was a middle-level manager within the largest division of a publically held company, and I was terrible at it.

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The children of the baby-boomers are currently entering their 40s, which creates a secondary bulge at the middle-manager level of Japanese business.

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