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a person who identifies and achieves organizational objectives through the deployment of appropriate resources. A manager can have responsibilities in one or more of five key areas: managing activities; managing...
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Researchers to Managers: Employees CAN Change
The Find: Managers who believe in their employees' capacity to change and grow are more likely to provide them support and to spot changes in performance than those who believe you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The Source: "Managers' Implicit Assumptions About Personnel" in...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Performance Management, Manager, Performance, Employee
Blog posts 2008-08-04
The Marketing Manager's Dilemma: Where To Spend
You have a finite amount of marketing dollars to spend, and an almost infinite number of ways to spend them. How much should I earmark for word-of-mouth to existing customers versus WOM to non-customers? Which products do I highlight in a catalog, and whom do I send...
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing Manager, Manager, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-07-28
Chinese Managers Underestimated in the West
The Find: According to one recent survey, complacent western managers "hugely underestimate" their Chinese counterparts while overestimating their own skills. The Source: The Global Management Challenge study from the Institute of Leadership & Management ILM. The Takeaway: The ILM surveyed 325 managers...
Tags: Marketing, Jessica Stillman, Marketing Research, Manager
Blog posts 2008-07-02
The Leadership Crisis Among Managers
Think you're the only manager having trouble taking the leadership reins? Think again. A new study reveals that more than 86 percent of managers at Fortune 1000 companies aren't "fully engaged" in in their roles, are still operating primarily as individual contributors or are stuck in transition...
Tags: CC Holland, Management, Leadership, Manager
Blog posts 2008-07-02
Worst Managers Around the World
Bad bosses are universal. Find out what people in Sydney, San Francisco and London have to say about their worst managers.
Tags: Managers, Sidewalk Stories, Manager
Videos 2008-05-08
How to Become a CEO, in Three Easy Steps
The Find: An HR consultancy has laid out the key skills for each rung on the career ladder, providing a road map for managers on their way up. The Source: The recent "Pulse on Leaders" study from Personnel Decisions International PDI. The...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Human Resources, Performance Management, Career, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Manager, Skill
Blog posts 2008-05-05
Are You a Good Manager?
I've stirred the pot with my post Sink or Swim Business, which looks at some of the management ideas of Ralph Sink. While I note several of his comments, the incendiary part of the post seems to be my opening line, which includes the words "fire all the managers." ...
Tags: Manager, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-04-24
Should Managers Have a Green Hippocratic Oath? | HBR IdeaCast
Businesses and managers must adopt a "First, do no harm" approach to their impact on society and the environment, according to Harvard Business School professor Rakesh Khurana. In this podcast, he calls on managers to cast aside the current "learn, earn, then give" model and to integrate a social and...
Tags: BNET staff, Internet, Podcasts, Manager, Environment
Blog posts 2008-04-18
Who Gets The Ax in a Recession?
Economy-driven layoffs have already begun, more will follow. Will you be one of them? Harvard Business Review editor Diane Coutu believes she has a formula to help you keep your job while others around you are losing theirs. It goes like this: ...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Job, Team, Manager
Blog posts 2008-04-10
The Young and the Clueless
The Idea in Brief Hell-bent on sabotaging your company? Then promote your brightest young professionals into your most demanding roles--especially when they threaten to leave unless you fast-track them. Nonsense, you say? Hardly. Promoting talented young...
Tags: In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Sharon Ting, Kathy E. Kram, Kerry A. Bunker, Entrepreneurship, Management, Manager, Manzoni, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Tools & Techniques
Articles 2008-03-10
Bosses: A Field Guide
The office is a jungle, and the boss is its most powerful creature. Here are ten common examples of the species, along with care and feeding tips should you encounter a manager in the wild. by Geoffrey James
Tags: Business, Manager, Tip, Boss
Image galleries 2008-03-07
How to Coach a Sales Rep.
One of the most important, and often most neglected, job responsibilities of the sales manager is coaching reps. Unfortunately, many sales managers don't know how to coach. I asked Linda Richardson (one of the world's top sales trainers and founder of the sales training firm Richardson) how...
Tags: Sales Strategy, Manager, Sales Representative, Evaluation, Sales Manager, Sales Force Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2008-02-26
How to Lead By Staying Out of the Way
Leadership is often portrayed as a glorious and heroic pursuit, where the manager is a font of knowledge and runs the team with the deft touch of a quarterback running the two-minute drill. But the truth is often much less sexy and more humble than that. In a recent article,...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Management, Team Management, Marshall Goldsmith, Manager, Leadership, Team
Blog posts 2008-02-12
Can You Trust Your Boss's Boss?
The disconnect between front-line workers and management is one of the oldest stories in the business world. It has fueled strikes, hampered productivity and soured work environments for as long as there have been org charts. But there is more to it than pay scale and the...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Management, Team Management, Manager, Worker, Boss
Blog posts 2008-01-30
Free Online Resources to Keep Your Skills Sharp
We've posted a few times about the need for continuing education for managers. Learning a foreign language and keeping your skills sharp can improve judgment, broaden your point of view, and keep you competitive. But managers, we know, are also incredibly busy. If a night class or a weekend...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Management, Leadership, Manager, Sharp Corp.
Blog posts 2008-01-22
Sending the Right Message to Young Talent
Many of us "mature" managers remember being told at the beginning of our work careers that the quickest way to the top was by being "seen and not heard." Seen but not heard does not cut it in today's workplace. Organizations need vital contributions from every employee,...
Tags: Human Resources, Management, Career, Workforce Management, Leadership, Professional Development, Manager, Business Skill, Talent, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2007-12-26
Evidence-Based Management
The Idea in Brief Managers have tough jobs: Under intense pressure to make decisions with incomplete information, even the best among us make mistakes. The good news? Evidence abounds to help us make the right choices....
Tags: Managing, Sales, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Manager, Evidence, DaVita Inc., Patient, Leading, Data, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2007-12-14
Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company
Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Management, Strategy, Regulations, Organizational Structure, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Productivity, Globalization, Manager, Accountability, Tool, Complexity
Blog posts 2007-12-11
Why It Pays to Be Hated by Your Team
You probably don't stay up at night crying that people at work don't like you. But you might worry that your team's productivity will suffer if members get caught up in emotional responses -- particularly if one "bad" apple starts contaminating the whole bunch. Rest assured; it's actually a good thing if...
Tags: Lori Deschene, Management, Team Management, Leadership, Manager, Leader, Team
Blog posts 2007-12-06
Six Keys to Better Communication and Better Financial Performance
Our recent post centered on a Harvard Business Review IdeaCast about what skills managers were missing got a lot of attention. Managers, it seems, want to know what's more important--soft communication skills or more hard-hosed traits like perseverance? Global Consulting firm Watson Wyatt weighed in yesterday with its 2007/2008 Communication...
Tags: Marketing, Management, Finance, Strategy, Branding, Leadership, Financial Accounting, Manager, Financial, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-12-05
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