It's Friday. You need to close a project, but the secretary is busy gossiping with your design engineer. And the chief engineer just assigned an action item that will no doubt take some extra time. But if you can get this thing over the finish line, you'll be sitting in an executive office next week. Things are going fine until... oh no. You forgot to book the conference room for the presentation. You sigh and hang your head, consoling yourself that life isn't quite so bad in...
Middle Management.
Middle Management is a tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted strategy game based in the corporate world. As a mid-level-manager in a major company, you simultaneously need to manage your employees while dealing with the ridiculous and sometimes frustrating initiatives from the corporate office.
But like any manager in a large corporation, it doesn't really matter how good you are at your job. Promotion is based on your performance relative to your peers. So if you're a shrewd manager, you'll strategically use your employees to work important projects, but also to hinder your fellow manager's progress.