personal development

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how to fail: climb the corporate ladder

I have a friend whose boss makes his life miserable. This boss takes no interest in my friend’s professional development or how he can develop as an engineer. Once during dinner, my friend asked me how such an incompetent manager could have been promoted in the first place.
The answer is explained by the Peter Principle.
Professor [...]

leadership

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Did Bennis Miss the Mark?

A common trend by popular authors is to describe leadership by defining the difference between managers and leaders. In the most famous example, Bennis and Goldsmith (1997) assert that managers do things right, while leaders do the right things. This is a short description, but not all that descriptive. Buckingham (2005) claims that great managers [...]