Interesting article on being in middle management (that is, anywhere where you have at least one person you supervise and at least one person who supervises you)

It is your responsibility as a manager to support the company’s decisions. Not just to execute on them, but to support them, to communicate that support, and if you disagree then you must hide that disagreement in the service of the company. You can disagree up — though even that is fraught with danger — but you can’t disagree down. You must hold yourself apart from your team, putting a wall between you and your team. To your team you are the company, not a peer.

via Beau Lebens originally from Being A Manager Is Lonely.