The return of the manager

This time it's personal

Management has been out of fashion for longer than leg warmers. Managers are dismissed as the permafrost who prevent change and the excuse for why important messages from the big corporate leader don’t reach the front line (not that the message was unintelligible, unpalatable or, most common of all in our experience, irrelevant).

And yet, for the most pressing challenges facing business today, managers provide an immediate and sustainable answer.

Mind Gym’s meta-analysis, embracing over 10 million data points, reveals the seven key talents that differentiate the best managers from the rest.

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Press

Don’t make managers walk the tightrope

Hey Managers: It’s OK not to be liked All too often managers find themselves walking the tightrope – constantly readjusting working relationships to get the ‘too close’ vs. ‘too distant’ relationship right. Get it wrong and the effects can be disastrous – the main reason people leave a company is because of their boss. So how do you balance being...

Management development at Unilever

Nick Pope, Unilever’s Global Learning Director, talks to Octavius Black about the new Management Development programme he has launched to 16,000 managers world wide.

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Blog

5 ways to… turn middle managers into superheroes

The middle manager has been left to drift in the corporate wilderness. This is a dangerous oversight because the middle manager holds the key to the most pressing challenge for business, productivity. The wise leader will quickly welcome middle managers back as the company’s saviours before they realise that we need them more than they need us. For those company...