Management Styles

When Work Gets Personal: Managing Emotional Employees

Some advice to better manage intensely emotional situations that occur in the life of each team.

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Conversation Starter: How Intimate Are You?

Boris Groysberg, Michael Slind

Establish a relaxed environment conducive to open and sincere discussion.

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To Have the Most Impact, Ask the Right Questions

Chris Musselwhite, Tammie Plouffe

Leaders can develop their influence and impact by asking the right questions.

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To Give Your Employees Meaning, Start With Mission

Teresa Amabile, Steve Kramer

On the importance of giving meaning in the business world.

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Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties

Michael Fertik

Having a good sense of pedagogy is an important asset to help Millennials be successful in their first professional experiences.

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Steve Jobs and Management by Meaning

Roberto Verganti

This article decodes the approach implemented by Steve Jobs for injecting meaning into Apple’s mission.

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How companies manage the front line today

Aaron De Smet, Monica McGurk, Marc Vinson

The results of a survey on the role and performance of front-line managers.

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Le management des managers dans Invictus [The management of managers in Invictus]

Dominique Deloche

The attitude adopted by Nelson Mandela, as a manager of managers, helped the Springboks’ trainer and team members achieve a particularly ambitious goal.

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The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses

Adam Grant, Francesca Gino, David A. Hofmann

A study that shows the assets of introverted leaders, notably in a participative management situation.

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Power in the Workplace

Elaine N. Aron

How can high sensitivity be handled and turned into an asset for a manager?

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