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While you're constantly switching roles and changing hats, in flux between high‐power and low‐power situations, your identity is never actually in flux, even though it might feel like it. An organization is like the human body, it needs a healthy, flexible core. If you strengthen your middle, you strengthen your entire body. If you strengthen the middle of the organization, you strengthen the entire organization. You are the core, flexible center and the center of strength for your company. Take pride in that truth.

Here are some other reframing insights to help you fully appreciate your pivotal place in the organization.

1. You work not in an organization but an organism. And you're the lifeblood of it.

2. You're the ultimate catalyst from which progress pulses, the amplifier. We'll cover this in depth in Chapter 3, “The Skillset for Leading Effectively from the Middle.”

3. You're the keeper of the long and short‐term flame, working on the business and in the business. This is a unique privilege that those leading from the middle experience.

4. You're a lighthouse and a beacon, signaling threats and drawing all toward opportunities. It's a powerful duality. For example, being in the middle means you're best suited to spot external threats from competitors and identify internally generated ideas for innovation.

5. The micro‐transitions you're constantly making aren't segmented, they're integrated. The 100 jobs you belong to add up to one vital job you're uniquely suited to do well. Value the variety.

6. While you might be the “middle child,” the middle child is also resourceful, creative, and independent. Galloway reminded me of this, and she's right. These are all things to take pride in.