An important thing to remember about Andre Villas-Boas is that he had ridiculously good hair. You don’t spend a record-shattering €15 million (£12.9; $16.3m) fee to sign a rookie manager away from ...

Psychologist Abraham Maslow says each of us has an innate desire to belong and be loved and that that is a necessary part of reaching our potential. While a desire to be loved is natural, managers who ...

All too often, good leadership is viewed as a more enticing and important topic than good management. People aspire to be leaders; they are trained to be managers. Many don’t even want to be referred ...

Bentonville, Arkansas, a once-quaint rural community in the Ozark Mountains, is home to 60,000 residents. Bentonville also happens to be the corporate headquarters of Walmart, the largest private ...

Is Frank Lampard a good manager? It feels like an extremely basic question and one that we should be able to answer, given the new Coventry City manager is now on his fourth club and has been in ...

I want to dive into the saying “people don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad managers.” It’s a common saying that most people have heard, but I don’t think the impact of this idea is fully understood or ...

The difference between a good manager and a great one lies not just in the message they convey, but also in the behaviors they model and the values they reinforce. While a good manager can achieve ...

Managers should preserve and increase the productivity of their employees. The ultimate goals are to avoid time waste, streamline efficiency so tasks can be handled in less time, and get more done ...

All managers make mistakes. However, some mistakes are not only avoidable, they’re costly to business and hinder a team’s development and growth. Most managers are too busy playing a catch-up ...

When you manage people, you don’t just oversee productivity — you hold careers, livelihoods and psychological well-being in your hands. The data doesn’t lie, and neither do the millions who’ve weighed ...

Structure your one-on-one conversations the right way to boost employee engagement and motivation. Gallup’s extensive employee engagement research, which spans several decades, found that not having ...

Members of the Technical.ly team — none of whom are bad managers — in December 2023 Two internal candidates were up for a vacant management position. Both were thoughtful, hardworking and invested in ...