Typically, managers dread having to perform employee assessments and experience high anxiety anticipating them.

Are there personality characteristics that are best for managers? This is a question that has tickled the interest of countless management theorists. Naturally, disagreements exist and many alternative models have been offered.

Managing a group of people is not an easy task. Problems arise with employees, with peers, and with higher level managers. Here is a list of what managers dream of having, but too seldom realize.

The goal in the classical Japanese Zen arts is to achieve mastery through spiritual practice. In recent years, many attempts have been made to bring this kind of Zen thinking to the West.

A manager’s procrastination tendency raises its ugly head, commonly, when planning for a new project. “Paralysis by analysis” becomes the mode of operation—or non operation.

All leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders.

Bestiaries, books that listed and described certain animals and their characteristics, were popular in the Middle Ages. Stories about each “beast” were designed to teach important moral lessons.

The big day has arrived; I’ve been promoted. I’m no longer just one of the guys; I’m a supervisor!

Your administrative assistant or support staff can be the people who can seriously impact your career. Without their enthusiastic support, you may have to struggle with mounds of paper work that takes little creativity, and gets you little notice, but takes lots of your time.

There you are: too much to do, deadline looming, shorthanded, struggling to just keep your head above water…and now the boss wants you to take on a whole new project.