Today, September 7th, is the official publication day of Good Boss, Bad Boss. I’ve got an hour or so before I need to run to the airport, and find myself looking back on what I’ve learned from writing the book,…
Read More Post a comment (0)As Good Boss, Bad Boss is officially published this month — in fact, today is the official publication day — I am doing quite a few speeches on the book. Most are “closed,” but three are open to the public,…
Read More Post a comment (0)When people ask me for one sentence summary of a great boss, I answer “He or she promotes both performance and humanity, and strikes a healthy balance between the two when trade-offs are necessary.” In Good Boss, Bad Boss, I…
Read More Post a comment (0)In the introduction to Good Boss, Bad Boss, I emphasize that — following an inspiring comment from my wife, Marina, who has worked in numerous management positions — my motivation for writing it was to describe the moods and moves…
Read More Post a comment (0)Frequent readers of this blog know that one of the most successful tools, or if you prefer, PR gimmicks, we did for The No Asshole Rule was an online quiz called the ARSE, the Asshole Rating Self-Exam. This is a…
Read More Post a comment (0)My post on the power of bosses who take a moment to offer a simple “thanks” to people got me thinking about the more general question of little signs that your boss cares for you. Certainly, as my recent HBR…
Read More Post a comment (0)Over at HBR online today, one of the articles they are featuring is my piece on The Boss as Human Shield. One point the article makes, and that I emphasize in Good Boss, Bad Boss , is that your job…
Read More Post a comment (0)The approach that I take to giving advice in Good Boss, Bad Boss and in everything else I write is to try to be as evidence-based as possible. But I also realize that the academic literature does not always map…
Read More Post a comment (0)Jim Stroup’s Managing Leadership took me by surprise. I got in the mail last week and was intending to glance at it for a few minutes, but I am now hooked. I also felt compelled to write an Amazon review…
Read More Post a comment (0)Jim Stroup’s Managing Leadership took me by surprise. I got in the mail last week and was intending to glance at it for a few minutes, but I am now hooked. I also felt compelled to write an Amazon review…
Read More Post a comment (0)As I wrote yesterday, I just had an HBR article on “The Boss as Human Shield” appear, which presents some of the main points from Chapter 6 of Good Boss, Bad Boss. HBR online posts the text of the article…
Read More Post a comment (0)The September Harvard Business Review includes my “The Boss as Human Shield,” which presents some of the main points in Chapter 6 of Good Boss, Bad Boss. From what I can tell, HBR puts up articles on their website for…
Read More Post a comment (0)The most recent Economist summarizes a fascinating study by two researchers over at the Stanford Business School — Professor David Larker and PhD Student Anastasia Zakolyukina — based on transcripts of American CEOs and CFOs statements during 30,000 quarterly earnings…
Read More Post a comment (0)I am continuing to march through my list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe over at HBR as we get close to the official release of Good Boss, Bad Boss. My last post — #8 on the list — digs…
Read More Post a comment (0)Paul Reist, Mehrdad Azim, Patrick Keating and Daphne Chang teamed-up to produce a new Good Boss,Bad Boss interview for the Stanford Graduate School of Business site. I was most impressed with their commitment to quality, and it was fun to…
Read More Post a comment (0)Good Boss, Bad Boss is officially appearing on September 7th, but it is already beginning to appear in stores and I notice that Amazon is already selling it and will start mailing out copies next week. In thinking about the…
Read More Post a comment (0)The central idea in Good Boss, Bad Boss, the one that runs throughout the book and that links many things together, is the notion that the best bosses are in tune with what it feels like to work for them…
Read More Post a comment (0)My last posts here and at Harvard Business Review were about the unintended dangers of the distinction between leadership and management. I argued that leadership is too often over-glorified and management is too often under-appreciated, which results in management being…
Read More Post a comment (0)Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a longstanding ambivalence about the distinction between leadership and management I blogged about it today over at HBR.org, under the title “”True leaders are also managers.” Here is a taste…
Read More Post a comment (0)Thanks to Johnnie for sending me this amazing and well-crafted “take this job and shove it” slide deck (from The Chive)that was (apparently ) put together by a young woman who got fed-up with her asshole bose. I found the…
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