Jack Welch passed away on Sunday, March 1, 2020 at the age of 84. The former GE CEO, whom Fortune magazine once named “Manager of the Century” died of renal failure, as reported in the
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Become the Great Manager that Every Team Deserves
If you’ve made the challenging but rewarding leap to first-time manager, you might not be sure what your next move is. What made you a successful employee won’t necessarily make you a great manager, and
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Are You Sure You Want to Be a Manager?
by Sarah Dayton In an ideal world a promotion to a managerial position would be a positive experience. You would feel valued and recognized for your hard work, dedication and expanding skill set. Your employers
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7 Best Leader Profiles that All Managers Should Read
Great business books about great business leaders. Follow their paths to success. Listed below are seven of the best biographies and autobiographies ever written about some of the most successful business leaders and entrepreneurs of
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Business Creativity: Why Great Business is More Art than Science
by Jonathan Gifford & Dr. Mark Powell We put a lot of time and effort into trying to make business scientific. We like to feel that there is a magic set of measurements that will
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Creating a Movement That Drives Transformational Change
Creating true change is never easy. Most startups don’t survive. Most community groups never get beyond small local actions. Even when a spark catches fire, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast as
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My Top 2 Business Tenets
by Charles D. Morgan For all my 46 years as a CEO, my top two business tenets have been: Hire the best people you can get. Know what you don’t know. Today those two pieces
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Working With and Motivating the World’s Largest Generation
In The Millennial Whisperer, author Chris Tuff squashes the myths and stereotypes regarding the Millennial generation and shows us how, by simply empowering, trusting and motivating one of the greatest generations of all time, the
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The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
Book Review by Andy Ghillyer For newly-promoted or rookie managers, one of the harshest lessons they will learn is that the skills that got them their promotions will bear no relation to the skills they
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10 Detrimental Behaviors at Work
by Tina Kuhn How to Communicate with Difficult People in the Workplace and Successfully Lead Any Personality Type Successful managers keep their organizations and teams focused on their goals and avoid the mire of drama
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7 Managerial Missteps You Should Never, Ever Make
by Shawn Doyle If you want great results, you need to work on being a great manager. Now. You start a business, and your business becomes successful, and your business grows. Then, you have to hire employees,
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Busy to Death
by Barry O’Reilly There’s a famous story about an executive that hired W. Edwards Deming to spend a week with his team and offer recommendations on how to improve both their own performance and the performance
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Want to Grow? Learn to Delegate.
by Tracy Spears It’s a fundamental part of leadership, so why aren’t people better at it? Here are a few comments from people that admit to being horrible at delegation: “I can do it better
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