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Regardless of your title, you manage something in your organization. As an individual contributor, you manage your day-to-day tasks and longer-term objectives. As a team manager, you guide the work of others, coordinate resources and share responsibility for the results. As the head of a department, you probably manage organizational direction more than people or process.
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The current CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, is a world-renowned serial entrepreneur. His entrepreneurial aptitude was present even as a child at the dawn of the PC age. As a self-taught computer programmer at age 12, he created a video game that he sold for $500. He had made his first step toward building his present $9 billion dollar net worth.

Soon after moving to Nort…

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If you ask people what their vision is, it’s not: ‘Hey, I’m here cutting this stone.’ It’s: ‘I’m part of a team building a cathedral.’
This is a statement from retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal who shared his perspective on leadership in a recent talk at Stanford University. It is an excellent example how a leader should define vision with his employees and through that…

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Retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal has made his share of leadership experiences in the US Army. In his last position he was in charge of the U.S. counter terrorism organization and had experience many successes but also failures.

In a talk at Stanford University he shares his advice about leadship with boils down to the following points:

Focus individual on their goals. Do this…

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When the former head of Microsoft’s Windows Business unit shares his perspectives on productivity, it’s a good idea to listen closely. Even though Steven Sinofsky has had to leave Microsoft because his strategy of converging desktop and mobile operating systems did not play out, one key achievement was his turnaround of the Windows Vista debacle and the achievement of strict deadlines with t…

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“Managers do things right, Leaders do the right things.”

This simple sentence boils down the principle that distinguished leaders from managers. Of course it is not as simple as that because finding out what the “right things” are is usually easier said than done.

“Decision making with impartial information” is the scientific term describing situations when it is impossible to collect and…

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Many factors influence the success in business but probably the single most important factor for success in any project or organization is the performance of teams in which employees and managers work together to achieve a common goal.

Therefore a lot of attention should be directed towards forming and leading teams to unlock the high performance necessary to make an impact. When teams ar…

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The decision of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to stop the existing work-from-home program and require employees to come to the office five days a week has been a huge controversy. Opponents and proponents of the work-from-home mode have come forward to argue for or against the decision, speculating whether this is beneficial for Yahoo or a sign that the company is behind the curve with regards to…

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A team is a group of people who come together in order to collaborate on a task that they are accountable for as a unit. A high performance team is not just a collection of people thrown together for administrative convenience. However, its definition may sound simple, but learning how to make a team function effectively is a common dilemma for managers. Building a high performance team is no…

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