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Can managers become leaders?

Managers plan and carry out organizational activities, but their role demands leadership. Here are five ways managers can ...
If you're an effective manager, then you might get to become a leader one day – that's how most people think of the difference between leadership and management. Harvard Business Review says managers ...
Management is often painted as a discipline of strategy, efficiency and resource allocation. Leadership, in this view, is ...
The recently issued mandate, “Performance Management for Federal Employees,” requires agencies to “provide a firm benchmark towards which employees must aim their performance.” It’s on point but fails ...
Middle managers, with their higher salaries and office perks, have become prime targets for cost reduction. Companies are pivoting toward flatter structures, believing that fewer management layers ...
The latest corporate buzzword is efficiency, and that hasn’t been good for much-maligned middle managers. If you’ve got direct reports, you should probably be looking over your shoulder. “It’s always ...