All too often, good leadership is viewed as a more enticing and important topic than good management. People aspire to be leaders; they are trained to be managers. Many don’t even want to be referred ...

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 ...

Weidmann, Ben, Joseph Vecci, Farah Said, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming. "How Do You Identify a Good Manager?" Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming).

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Corporate America continues to slash their ranks of middle managers. Data from Live Data Technologies, as reported by the WSJ, shows that U.S. public companies have cut their middle-manager headcounts ...

A great manager knows that behind every employee is a person, not just a spreadsheet. They understand that a career isn’t just a ladder; no, it’s a journey made of highs, lows, and the people who have ...

What skills do first-time managers most need? It's a question as old as the field of management itself. New managers are often thrown into the job without much preparation. Source: Cottonbro Studio / ...

Managers come and go. Great systems endure—and compound greatness. There are seven brutal truths that separate good managers from bad—trust, clear boundaries, courage under pressure, and so on, ...