It’s not uncommon for leaders and their reports to sit through hours of meetings during the workday. So with meeting fatigue setting in, it may feel criminal to add yet another one to people's ...

Heather Elkington was on the brink of a major career milestone: helping to sell the startup she’d helped scale, GoProposal, to a global corporate powerhouse. As the Operations Director, she’d been the ...

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 ...

Being a manager isn't just about assigning tasks and meeting deadlines; it's also about motivating and inspiring team members. It's about shaping the culture your team experiences every day. “People ...

If you’ve spent any time on the internet over the past decade, you’ve probably seen Alison Green’s work in some form or another. My introduction to her advice column, Ask a Manager, was in 2017 when a ...

It’s not called the second-hardest job in America for nothing. Even during periods of stability, being the mayor of New York City is a colossal task more akin to running a nation than a city. Consider ...

You’ve likely seen the stories. Organizations are no longer hiring young professionals because they lack skills and can be replaced by AI (Burleigh, 2025). The robots are coming for everybody’s jobs ...

Rafa Benitez has backed Steven Gerrard to make a good manager, but has told the former Liverpool captain that he needs to do the job before knowing if it is for him. When asked if Gerrard had what it ...

When Andy Coley first started managing his team, he tried to be as nice as possible. He would give ‘nice’ feedback, and avoid hard conversations. He was so afraid of conflict that he would choose to ...