There is a bigger difference between management and leadership than most people realize. Not all leaders make good managers and vice versa. Whereas leadership is about providing clear direction through strategic thinking, decision making, and planning. It is about the macro. Management is about executing leadership initiatives through directing, organizing, coaching, and holding people tactically accountable. It is about the micro. A good manager knows his/her people well and is committed to their success individually and collectively.
Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results — Judith E. Glaser Introduction Most leaders spend a significant portion of their day in conversation. We have meetings,…
The Growth Trap There is a dangerous assumption many business owners make when things start moving in the right direction. They see revenue increasing, backlog growing, new opportunities appearing, the…
Ever since workers moved from offices to work-from-home setups, companies have worried about how they’re spending their time.…
Most teams don’t fail from lack of effort—they stall from fuzzy priorities, uneven standards, and inconsistent follow-through. This…
What truly drives us to perform at our best? In his groundbreaking TED Talk, The Puzzle of Motivation,…
Being a perfectionist does not mean that you are doomed as a manager. Organizational research on perfectionism is…
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The book shows how to read what your boss actually needs, how to adapt to different styles, and…
Classify your relationships by the benefits they provide. Generally, benefits fall into one of six categories: information, political…
Where Performance Planning Breaks Down—And How to Fix It Before It Shows Up in Results Most performance problems…
Business leadership isn't easy. If it were, everyone would be able to do it. Some talented people make…
I believe that business and nonprofit leaders need to think differently about what constitutes success. Besides the quality…
If you have direct report struggling with time management, it can be challenging to know how to address…
Thanks to continuing resignations, many employees’ workloads have increased to untenable levels. There are a few common solutions…
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As…
Thirty years ago, 80% of the resources in an organization were dedicated to operations, and 20% to projects;…
When an organizational change is first proposed, most people immediately want to know three things: what does this…
Whether negotiating a salary increase or chatting with a co-worker, people have more productive conversations when they identify…
Everyone is exhausted. People are coping with collective grief and trauma on a global scale, which means leaders…
HBR Coaching Leaders Podcast: What Leadership Really Looks Like—When the Answers Aren’t Obvious Most leadership advice sounds clean.…
Strong leadership isn’t about managing org charts or job descriptions—it’s about understanding the people behind the roles. The…
Patrick Lencioni’s The Truth About Employee Engagement (originally The Three Signs of a Miserable Job) explains—through a short…
Want To Be A Better Manager: Start Asking These 5 Questions Most managers think they’re communicating enough—but their…
Management Tip of the Day newsletter continues to be one of HBR’s most popular newsletters. In this article,…
You probably do a lot of one-on-one meetings at work: with your manager, teammates, folks from other teams.…
Managers of remote teams who improve their delegation skills can help solve the biggest impediment to their success:…
Many companies track KPIs as a way of predicting performance. To really exploit the predictive power of KPIs,…
Questions to Assess Management Potential, developed by Capacity Building Solutions, isn’t a checklist or a performance review. It’s…
Becoming an effective manager requires continuously honing and improving your management skills. This could mean exchanging resources with others…
Study after study has shown that it’s not enough to be guided by simple measures of productivity as…
Risk Management Techniques The Reality of Risk—It’s Not the Event, It’s the Lack of Preparation Most leaders think…
Most team problems aren’t technical—they’re people problems: unclear goals, fuzzy roles, slow decisions, and accountability that slips. This…
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