The Top 50 Management Dilemmas

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Challenges for yourself

All managers, at some points in their careers, receive difficult feedback: you hear a message you don’t want to hear about yourself, or others confirm something about you that you haven’t wanted to examine or explore too closely. Successful managers are able to receive difficult personal feedback, synthesise it and use it to make themselves stronger and better.

Some of the biggest dilemmas that managers encounter are not actually with other people or with demands made on their skills or competence. Often managers can deal well with these tangible challenges. For many managers, the biggest challenges are those far more intangible challenges around self-awareness. How do you best respond to the highly personal: ...