An important thing to remember about Andre Villas-Boas is that he had ridiculously good hair. You don’t spend a record-shattering €15 million (£12.9; $16.3m) fee to sign a rookie manager away from ...

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 ...

The difference between a good manager and a great one lies not just in the message they convey, but also in the behaviors they model and the values they reinforce. While a good manager can achieve ...

I want to dive into the saying “people don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad managers.” It’s a common saying that most people have heard, but I don’t think the impact of this idea is fully understood or ...

Is Frank Lampard a good manager? It feels like an extremely basic question and one that we should be able to answer, given the new Coventry City manager is now on his fourth club and has been in ...

Psychologist Abraham Maslow says each of us has an innate desire to belong and be loved and that that is a necessary part of reaching our potential. While a desire to be loved is natural, managers who ...

Five tips to help you improve your management skills and become an effective and influential leader Being a good manager is about more than just being proficient in your field — in fact, it’s a ...

Bentonville, Arkansas, a once-quaint rural community in the Ozark Mountains, is home to 60,000 residents. Bentonville also happens to be the corporate headquarters of Walmart, the largest private ...

Structure your one-on-one conversations the right way to boost employee engagement and motivation. Gallup’s extensive employee engagement research, which spans several decades, found that not having ...

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, ...

Managers should preserve and increase the productivity of their employees. The ultimate goals are to avoid time waste, streamline efficiency so tasks can be handled in less time, and get more done ...

Have you ever observed how managers are too soft and nice because they are afraid their subordinates will say: “You are a bad manager?” I think it’s a common fear amongst leaders, one we rarely talk ...