Imagine you’ve been hired on as a manager to supervise a team that includes the following two staff members, among others: Mary has been working at the same job on the same team since the dawn of time ...

Being a great leader means being a great manager too. True leadership blends vision with execution, strategy with teamwork, and asking the right questions. To manage or to lead—that is the question. I ...

A good manager can be the make-or-break factor with retention. Here are some best practices for becoming a better manager and common mistakes to avoid. Managers are going to need to be flexible to ...

A former HR leader at Microsoft and executive coach for Fortune 500 decision-makers, Nawaz offers actionable frameworks in her book on how to become a better manager, backed by lessons from her ...

Have you ever observed how managers are too soft and nice because they are afraid their subordinates will say: “You are a bad manager?” I think it’s a common fear amongst leaders, one we rarely talk ...

The Ig Nobel awards, an annual ceremony for laugh-out-loud scientific papers, celebrate the joyfully improbable nature of much academic research. One of this year’s Ig Nobel winners, “Factors involved ...

There are seven fears holding managers back. Everybody is under more pressure today. Most managers are under even more pressure. Plus, your manager probably moved into a supervisory position because ...

Dylan Field found out the hard way that being a good leader doesn't necessarily mean being a good manager. The Figma CEO assumed that because he had always been a leader, he was automatically ready to ...

Is Frank Lampard a good manager? It feels like an extremely basic question and one that we should be able to answer, given the new Coventry City manager is now on his fourth club and has been in ...

There's one common trap managers should avoid to increase their effectiveness. Managers are going to need to be flexible to thrive in 2025, and they'll have to do so while operating under a microscope ...

Becoming a manager for the first time can feel exciting, gratifying, nerve-wracking, and even overwhelming. But being a good boss is not about following a checklist of what makes a perfect manager, as ...