Posts Tagged ‘management’
Why Most Managers Are Ineffective
Warren Bennis (or Drucker, or someone else first) once remarked that leadership is doing the right thing and management is doing things right. However, recent research suggests that most managers are not doing things right, or better said: are not doing much right at all. Research from Heide Bruch and the late Sumantra Ghoshal discovered [...]
0304 | Bob Frisch
Bob Frisch, managing partner of The Strategic Offsites Group, has worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to German mittelstand family businesses to the U.S. Department of State. Bob’s work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, theWall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Fortune. In this interview, we talk about the difference between senior management [...]
Management Tips from HBR
The primary goal for the LeaderLab site is to provide brief, enlightening information for leaders straight from empirical research on leadership, management and organizational behavior. The secondary goal is to shine a spotlight on other resources that are pursuing the primary goal. That is exactly why I’m so positive about Management Tips: From Harvard Business [...]
How Good Leaders Become Bad Bosses
In his work on the perils of success, John O’Neil (1993) provides leaders with a handy way to follow their own progress on the path to burnout and entropy. He compares this path to an S-curve, where entropy begins near the top. As we move toward the top, we start to change the way we [...]
Book Review: Managing (Right) for the First Time
Usually, I reserve review space on this blog for books that are saturated with empirical evidence and still provide practical implications for everyday leadership. However, every once in awhile I’ll encounter a book that doesn’t claim any ties to research, but offers insights that line up with evidence. David C. Baker’s Managing (Right) for the [...]
