What Makes People Feel Upbeat at Work - The New Yorker
How can an employer create an upbeat workplace? By not telling people to be positive.
How and Why to Use Checklists | The Art of Manliness
Misconceptions About Leadership and Management
John Kotter
Why Being Transparent About Pay Is Good for Business - WSJ
6 Myths About Empowering Employees
Lessons from a nuclear submarine.
Over-led and Under-managed | Leadership Freak
The trick to managing people smarter than yourself
The trick to managing people smarter than yourself is not as complicated as you might think.
Which Industries Have The Most Women In Senior Management? [Infographic] - Forbes
The Right Way to Hold People Accountable
You need to be clear in five areas.
Only 8% of Leaders Are Good at Both Strategy and Execution
But if you’re good at one, you’ll probably get better at the other.
What We Learned About Management in 2015, in 25 Charts and Graphics
From leadership and sales to robots and beer.
How to Be Good at Managing Both Introverts and Extroverts
Regardless of which one you are.
Your First Management Job: Why It's So Hard to Make the Transition - Fortune
During your first management job, it's not unusual to face both resentful former peers and bosses who won't let go. Featuring Chip Espinoza.
Dan Pink on the State of Free Agent Nation in 2015 (And Beyond)
Brian Clark at Rainmaker interviews Dan Pink for Unemployable
What if you could replace performance evaluations with four simple questions? - The Washington Post
In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings - The Washington Post
The firm tells The Washington Post that it will abandon its old system for all 330,000 employees, starting in September.
The case of the disappearing chief operating officer - The Washington Post
The role has been disappearing rapidly among Fortune 500 companies. But why?
4 Reasons Managers Should Spend More Time on Coaching - HBR
It’s essential, not optional.
Zappos to employees: Get behind our ‘no bosses’ approach, or leave with severance - The Washington Post
In a recent memo, CEO Tony Hsieh addressed those who aren't behind the company's new management philosophy.
Google’s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve - NYTimes.com
A company study found that a manager’s technical skills were far less valued by employees than people skills.
Cancelling One-on-One Meetings Destroys Your Productivity
Regular check-ins save time in the long run.
David Ogilvy’s Timeless Principles of Creative Management | Brain Pickings
A library of cross-disciplinary interestingness and combinatorial creativity
Great Leadership: 10 Employee Conversations That Managers Hate to Have
Information and opinions about leadership and management development by expert Dan McCarthy
Finding the Balance Between Coaching and Managing - Jack Zenger, and Joseph Folkman - Harvard Business Review
Why Good Managers Are So Rare - Randall Beck , and James Harter - Harvard Business Review
What If You Had to Write a "User Manual" About Your Leadership Style?
If You're Not Helping People Develop, You're Not Management Material - Monique Valcour - Harvard Business Review
Management Is (Still) Not Leadership - John P. Kotter - Harvard Business Review
Great article by John Kotter on distinction between management and leadership
QuestBack’s Lead Strategist, on His ‘User Manual’ - NYTimes.com
Example of writing a user manual for people