Be A Better Manager

Managing Well

Managers are crucial to the success of organizations. While organizational leaders design forward-thinking strategies, managers make those strategies happen. Given the forces acting on organizations—such as globalization, outsourcing, the upcoming retirements of the Baby Boomer generation—organizations have to reinvent themselves as flexible learning organizations that can attract and retain the best and the brightest to stay competitive. Managers have a powerful role to play in that reinvention.

And yet, despite its importance, management development often receives less attention than leadership development. Where does this leave managers? Especially new or young managers who have been promoted up from the ranks because of skills ...