Managers deal with a litany of challenges, including dealing with decreased performance levels, being understaffed, lack of communication and teamwork amongst staff, constant pressure to meet ...

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 ...

The recently issued mandate, “Performance Management for Federal Employees,” requires agencies to “provide a firm benchmark towards which employees must aim their performance.” It’s on point but fails ...

"How many managers to have — what are the pros and cons of managers?" The question was posed to Mark Zuckerberg nearly two years ago during an interview with the podcaster Lex Fridman. At the time, ...

Process matters. In fact, any start-up is searching not only for the modern phrase “product-market fit”—a proven solution to a problem that people will pay to fix—but also for a process for achieving ...

Managing managers can be similar, in some ways, to managing a team — you need to align priorities, communicate goals, provide feedback and serve as a mentor. But the difference in managing managers is ...

In economically uncertain times such as these, managers with foresight and assertiveness are needed more than ever. The teams they lead often experience the opposite though: Deadlines are forgotten, ...