Management styles

The would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the...

A top-down approach doesn't work anymore.

Successful meetings begin by identifying their objectives as information-digestive, constructive-originative, or legislative. A chairperson should draw...

Most managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and...

Successful general managers stress fundamentals. Whatever their leadership style, they invariably focus their efforts on the six tasks that lay the foundation...

Humor is widely considered essential in personal relationships, but in leaders, it's seen as an ancillary behavior. Though some leaders use humor instinctively,...

Popular lore tells us that genius is born, not made. Scientific research, on the other hand, reveals that true expertise is mainly the product of years...

Executives don't realize it, but a hierarchy of managers exacts a hefty tax on any organization: Managers are expensive, increase the risk of bad decisions,...

When it comes to having a high-powered career and a family, the painful truth is that women in the United States don't "have it all." At midlife, in fact,...

Effective administration depends upon three basic personal skills which, for analytical purposes, can be classified as technical, human, and conceptual....

Over the past decade, 360-degree feedback has revolutionized performance management. But one of its components--peer appraisal--consistently stymies executives...

Today's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore. They hold what Hewlett and...

Competitive success depends on learning, but most people, including professionals in leadership positions, are not very good at it. Learning is a function...

In the winter of 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, business leaders posed for the covers of Time, BusinessWeek, and the Economist with the aplomb...

When a CEO leaves because of performance problems, the company typically recruits someone thought to be better equipped to fix what the departing executive...

Remote work brought a subtle but important shift in how employees expect their managers to work with them.

During his nearly 14 years at the helm of networking giant Cisco Systems, Chambers has developed an uncanny ability to sense market trends long before...

A method to arrange priorities ranks objectives from the broad to the specific. Good objectives are consistent with the overall design of the enterprise...

Most managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and...

These days more companies are inviting customers to help them design products. Now a few are taking things further and including their other stakeholders-employees,...