Guiding a tech project from start to finish entails staying on top of seemingly endless details, decisions and data (and sometimes, detours). From making sure progress is achieved on time and on ...

Plus, his employees would have likely overlooked his lack of “professional manager” skills. A 2015 study published in ...

The transition from individual contributor to manager is significant and requires essential skills. Suddenly, your focus expands from crushing your own tasks to empowering and guiding a whole team.

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Dear Dave: I see that you often write about good management, but how can we accurately measure what our managers are doing – or what they are supposed to be doing? I don’t think many of my fellow ...

According to extensive Gallup studies over two decades, one of the most important decisions any organization will ever make is whom to hire or to promote to management. Not to be a downer, but good ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the shifting workplace and the new employee experience. It’s a shame that “soft skills” are called just that. In the ...

The long-running Selected Papers series features notable work by University of Chicago faculty and other business leaders. This essay is an edited excerpt; the original was presented in 1967. The ...