The Managers

Leadership

How Middle Management Can Drive Your Business Into the Ground

Neglecting your middle managers, who often oversee the majority of employees in an organization, can lead to trouble. Here's how to keep things on the right track.

Collaboration

3 Signs That Managers, Not Employees, Are the Problem With Performance Management

When employees leave, morale drops and performance stagnates, you definitely have an "uh-oh" situation on your hands.

Marketing

Managing Venues and Clients: # 4 Key Steps That'll Help Organize Better Events

The convenience of a location needs to be considered because no matter how amazing a venue is, guests won't turn up if it's inconvenient for them

Lifestyle

Reality of the Incidence of Depression & the Role of Managers

The burden of depression and other mental health conditions is rising globally.

Business Process

Are Your Superstar Sellers Disguising Bad Management?

Frontline managers have to make average performers better and not simply coast on what their top person's results.

Leadership

What Sets Apart A Good Manager From A Bad One?

Be a leader, not a commander

Employee Experience & Recruiting

The Efficient Manager's Guide to Keeping Their Highly-Productive Team Happy

Let them engage their creativity and ideas, even if it's not clear exactly where it is headed.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

To Drive Business Success Invest in Your Managers

First-level managers have a direct and outsized impact on organizational effectiveness.

Growing a Business

Want an Unstoppable Team? Try Using Manager and Peer Recognition.

Authentic appreciation from leaders and among co-workers leads to a positive, supportive work environment.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

Quit Trying to Make Everyone on Your Team an Entrepreneur

Founders often make these three mistakes when striving to enlist employees in growing their businesses. Here's how to avoid them.

Leadership

The Ethics Coach on Managing a Sticky-Fingered Staff

It all comes back to communication.

Money & Finance

When It Comes to Equity Stakes, There's No Need for Contention

We take a look at the issue from both the investors' and founders' point of view.

Growing a Business

How to Handle Large Changes in Sales Volume

The easiest way to wrest back control over a roller-coaster sales cycle is by managing the pricing of your products or services.

Leadership

Almost Two-Thirds of CEOs Don't Get Outside Business Advice

A new survey finds that most business executives really are lonely at the top.

Marketing

What's the Best Way to Ask for What I Need When Networking?

Ivan Misner, founder and chairman of BNI, on cultivating fruitful networking relationships.