Management - Leadership

For years, managers have been encouraged to praise and constructively criticize just about everything their employees do. But there are better ways to help employees thrive and excel.

Severance, a new series from Apple TV+, explores a simple solution for the problem of worker multidimensionality—one with Black Mirror-ish implications for society. It involves a medical procedure that severs an employee’s brain so that it functions in a vacuum whenever they’re on the clock. No personal life, no personality, and none of the emotional baggage associated with either. All that a severed brain retains on the job is the worker’s skill set and their time.

No matter how talented you know yourself to be, self-doubt can plague anyone who steps into a leadership role at work—especially if you’ve switched careers. : Confidence as a leader takes time and experience.

In recent years, the thinking on the future of work has focused on the need to reconfigure jobs—not to reimagine or replace them entirely. The reasoning goes like this: As alternative approaches to work have emerged such as artificial intelligence, automation, and off-balance-sheet talent, we need to disaggregate the job into component tasks, determine which tasks can be performed more optimally by smart machines or alternative talent outside of the organization’s walls, and then reassemble the remaining tasks with new ones to create a newly reconfigured job. Employees are then reskilled, upskilled, or outskilled to once again meet the needs of the newly reconfigured job, with automation substituting for, augmenting, or transforming the human worker’s role

The biggest mistake most new managers make is to continue doing their old jobs. Here are 10 great tips to get first-time managers rolling.

Effective leadership is an influence process where leaders implement everyday, commonsense approaches that help people and organizations thrive. Yet somehow, many of these fundamental principles are still missing from most workplaces. 

What should you be delegating? This cool interactive tool will help you figure it out. Plug in your task, answer a few questions and you'll have the answer.

You've probably read your share of "#LeadershipFail" stories. You probably think, "those managers are idiots." But watch out for these more subtle fails.

There has long been a serious trust deficit between leaders and their people, and the pandemic has exacerbated it. But before examining this, let’s explore the meaning of trust and COVID’s effect on it. Trust is often a misunderstood concept. People often say things like “I don’t trust that person,” making it sound like our…

Ron Darling, a stellar pitcher with the New York Mets in the 1980s, was going through a brutal divorce. He struggled through spring training and the start of the season. His emotional turmoil  hurt his game. Davey Johnson, the team’s roughneck manager, noticed Darling’s struggles and reportedly said to him, “I went through a rough…

A team out of MIT combed through huge amounts of data to determine the real causes of the Great Resignation.

Managers are the best tool companies have to combat burnout, improve performance and increase retention. Instead of piling onto managers’ already overflowing plates, CLOs must challenge stakeholders to take a long, hard look at what it takes to be a manager in today’s workplace and urge partners to shift management expectations to focus on the human side of the job — and they must provide a framework to empower managers with the skills needed to overcome human problems like burnout.