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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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." ...
- 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...
- 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: ...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
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