Posts Tagged ‘management’
Control Freaks in Management
After interviewing more than 10,000 employees at 600+ companies, you start noticing patterns in management, as I’ve written about in Managing (Right) for the First Time. One of the most fascinating to me is the overwhelming presence of control freaks. Management seems to attract control freaks in inordinate numbers. My own experience as a control [...]
The Second Least Important Question in Leadership
What is the difference between leadership and management? I’m guilty of propagating this. The first issue of LeaderLab Papers featured a curated discussion on this difference. The end result of that piece, however, was that the distinction was irrelevant. And it is irrelevant, completely irrelevant. Some years ago, management was considered a more inclusive term [...]
Why Your Boss Sucks
Over a year ago, I gave a talk at IgniteOKC, a local event following the Ignite speaking format. The talk, “Why Your Boss Sucks” explored the Peter Principle as an explanation for terrible bosses and offered advice for how to avoid their fate.
Book Review: Managing the Millennials
Leading/managing Millennials is fast becoming a lucrative niche-field for writers and consultants to help companies with. The Millennials are growing into our workforces now and companies are learning, or not learning, to adapt to them. Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja and Craig Rusch wrote “Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today’s Workforce” and [...]
Toward a New Kind of Distinction
Leadership is an intricate concept. There are a variety of issues within just the definition that scholars and practitioners alike can get hung up on. One merely has to search the term “leadership versus management” on the Internet to discover the depth and breadth of writing on that attempt at distinction. Indeed, I’ve sought after [...]
