Stepping into a senior position is a proud moment for upwardly mobile professionals. However, becoming a successful manager is far from straightforward. Analyst Gartner suggests that as many as 40% of ...

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

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 ...

Women and tech have a complicated relationship. It’s not that women aren’t interested or gifted or passionate about work in the tech industry; it’s the systemic issues that have historically made it ...

To be a great manager, invite feedback in form of their perspective on how you can help them perform, not about what you are good or bad at. Getting feedback at any point in your career is essential.

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 ...

Being a great resource is quite easy. Just do what the person you report to needs you to do. Do it when you say you will do it and better than anyone else could do it. Also, never, ever upward ...

Steve Jobs shared advice about how to hire the best managers in a 1985 interview. He said the best managers are "great individual contributors" who don't necessarily want to manage. The legendary ...

Coaches always learn from experience, so when you and your mentees are on the same page and working together to achieve success, you’ll experience success more often. People only respond honestly and ...