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The Executive's Two Responsibilities (MT)
17 november 2025
Executives and managers both have two core responsibilities that inform all else that they do. But the two key responsibilities are different between managers and executives. Managers manage; executives lead.
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How To Present At A Conference - A Checklist - Part 2
3 november 2025
At some point in your career, you're going to get to, or have to, present at a conference. There are some special considerations, and here they are.
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How To Present At A Conference - A Checklist - Part 1
27 oktober 2025
At some point in your career, you're going to get to, or have to, present at a conference. There are some special considerations, and here they are.
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The Hip Pocket Presentation
20 oktober 2025
Most managers don't know it, but if they want to further their career, they must always have a presentation in their hip pocket, ready to be given on no-notice. That's why it's called the Hip Pocket Presentation.
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The Love Speech
13 oktober 2025
For many years at our Effective Manager Conferences, Mark ended the day by giving what we came to call, "The Love Speech." Love matters in managing others. Here it is, for the record, for those who never got to hear it in person.
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What To Do When You Get Promoted - Part 2
6 oktober 2025
Promotions are exciting - congratulations! And now you have some work to do, but we will tell you exactly what and why and how.
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What To Do When You Get Promoted - Part 1
29 september 2025
Promotions are exciting - congratulations! And now you have some work to do, but we will tell you exactly what and why and how.
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Career Insurance For Your Directs - Part 2
22 september 2025
We recently re-released a Hall of Fame Career Tools cast about Building Your Network. That's only one part of a series of things everyone must do to manage their own careers. Everybody needs "Career Insurance." And too many managers don't educate their directs on what they have to do to be successful with their own careers management. Lees meer
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Career Insurance For Your Directs - Part 1
15 september 2025
We recently re-released a Hall of Fame Career Tools cast about Building Your Network. That's only one part of a series of things everyone must do to manage their own careers. Everybody needs "Career Insurance." And too many managers don't educate their directs on what they have to do to be successful with their own careers management. Lees meer
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Google's Project Oxygen
8 september 2025
We have mentioned, usually only briefly, Google's "Project Oxygen' for many years, in many podcasts. Now we tell the story - in part because we were there.
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The Black Widow Mistake - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)
1 september 2025
The Black Widow Mistake is named after the red, angular figure eight markings on the abdomen of the dangerous female black widow spider. The mistake that many aspiring executives make is to start narrowing their development at the same time that their executive role requires them to be thinking more broadly, including outside the organization. It can put a stop to your upward development. Lees meer
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The Black Widow Mistake - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)
25 augustus 2025
The Black Widow Mistake is named after the red, angular figure eight markings on the abdomen of the dangerous female black widow spider. The mistake that many aspiring executives make is to start narrowing their development at the same time that their executive role requires them to be thinking more broadly, including outside the organization. It can put a stop to your upward development. Lees meer
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See One, Do One, Teach One
18 augustus 2025
The way most managers develop their team is haphazard and neither efficient nor effective. How can we not develop our teams when doctors learn thousands and thousands of procedures, diagnoses, and surgeries in such little time? See One, Do One, Teach One. It's faster, and it works well if you're willing to delegate and give lots of negative feedback. Lees meer
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The Four Hidden Dangers of Not Delegating - Part 2
11 augustus 2025
Too many managers fail to delegate sufficiently. In many cases, managers don't know how or what to delegate. But even when some managers have a sense of what and how, they don't delegate. This is often because they don't know the hidden dangers of NOT delegating! Lees meer
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The Four Hidden Dangers of Not Delegating - Part 1
4 augustus 2025
Too many managers fail to delegate sufficiently. In many cases, managers don't know how or what to delegate. But even when some managers have a sense of what and how, they don't delegate. This is often because they don't know the hidden dangers of NOT delegating! Lees meer
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Proactive Reporting And The Bricklayer - Part 2
28 juli 2025
As managers get more responsibility, and potentially promotions to Senior Manager, they start feeling squeezed between the demands from above and the demands of running their org. The increases in requests for information from above take time to prepare for. The answer is to make your team's reporting more proactive. Lees meer
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Proactive Reporting And The Bricklayer - Part 1
21 juli 2025
As managers get more responsibility, and potentially promotions to Senior Manager, they start feeling squeezed between the demands from above and the demands of running their org. The increases in requests for information from above take time to prepare for. The answer is to make your team's reporting more proactive. Lees meer
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How To Go On Vacation - Part 2 - HOF 2025
14 juli 2025
Part 2 of our Hall of Fame guidance on how to plan for and take an effective vacation.
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How To Go On Vacation - Part 1 - HOF 2025
7 juli 2025
Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to plan for and take an effective vacation.
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20th Anniversary Cast
30 juni 2025
Welcome to a special episode of Manager Tools. Today, you're listening to the live recording of our 20th anniversary podcast, captured in front of a fantastic audience of managers and leaders just like you.
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Building Your Bench - Chapter 1 - Part 2
23 juni 2025
Too many managers rely on HR to bring them candidates for their hiring needs. HR is a necessary part of sourcing candidates, and it's important to work with them. But there is often a disconnect, because they don't know your work or needs as well as you do. Effective managers build a bench of possible candidates, and hire from their own bench whenever they can. Lees meer
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Building Your Bench - Chapter 1 - Part 1
16 juni 2025
Too many managers rely on HR to bring them candidates for their hiring needs. HR is a necessary part of sourcing candidates, and it's important to work with them. But there is often a disconnect, because they don't know your work or needs as well as you do. Effective managers build a bench of possible candidates, and hire from their own bench whenever they can. Lees meer
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HR May Not Be Your Friend - Part 2
9 juni 2025
Effective managers need a good relationship with HR. But HR may be the hardest staff organization to have a good relationship with, because their incentives are often misaligned with everyday managers. Even if you have an "HR Business Partner," they work for someone else, and probably support other managers. This isn't inherently bad, but a smart manager knows to work with them, while understanding the challenges. Lees meer
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HR May Not Be Your Friend - Part 1
2 juni 2025
Effective managers need a good relationship with HR. But HR may be the hardest staff organization to have a good relationship with, because their incentives are often misaligned with everyday managers. Even if you have an "HR Business Partner," they work for someone else, and probably support other managers. This isn't inherently bad, but a smart manager knows to work with them, while understanding the challenges. Lees meer
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The World's Best Feedback Organization
26 mei 2025
If feedback is so important to high performance - and it is - it makes sense to study if and when and how the very best athletes get feedback about their performance. While there are 500 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies - truly rarified air - there are only 32 starting players at each position on each NFL team. There are more than 10 times more of the very best CEOs in the entire world than the very best starting quarterbacks, middle linebackers, centers, and defensive ends.. Even if you count all 11 starting players on offense or defense, there are still more Fortune 500 CEOs than starting offensive or defensive players. It is harder to become a starting NFL player than it is to become a Fortune 500 CEO. And they get more feedback than the CEOs do. There’s a connection. Lees meer
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Everybody Has Too Much Work To Do! - Part 2
19 mei 2025
Everyone is always complaining that they have too much work to do. Too many tasks, too many projects, too many meetings. Theree's not enough time in the day to get everything done. What no one realizes is this is the way it's supposed to be.
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Everybody Has Too Much Work To Do! - Part 1
12 mei 2025
Everyone is always complaining that they have too much work to do. Too many tasks, too many projects, too many meetings. There's not enough time in the day to get everything done. What no one realizes is this is the way it's supposed to be.
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The Hidden Purpose Of Interviewing - External Validation - Part 2
5 mei 2025
Part 2 of our guidance on why interviewing must not only select the right candidate, but also build organizational trust through a fair, known, challenging, and respectful process.
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The Hidden Purpose Of Interviewing - External Validation - Part 1
28 april 2025
Interviewing must not only select the right candidate, but also build organizational trust through a fair, known, challenging, and respectful process.
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Working Hard - Chapter One - The Myth And The Basics - Part 2
21 april 2025
It takes hard work to get ahead in your professional life. As you progress into more demanding roles, more is expected of you. To climb to the top, if that is what you aspire to do, takes an incredible amount of work. But it is a MYTH that “working hard” simply means working more hours. In fact, working more hours, in the long run, is NOT the way to think about “working hard.” In this series of guidance, we will lay out how to get the most out of yourself without constantly sacrificing your personal and family life. Lees meer
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Working Hard - Chapter One - The Myth And The Basics - Part 1
14 april 2025
It takes hard work to get ahead in your professional life. As you progress into more demanding roles, more is expected of you. To climb to the top, if that is what you aspire to do, takes an incredible amount of work. But it is a MYTH that “working hard” simply means working more hours. In fact, working more hours, in the long run, is NOT the way to think about “working hard.” In this series of guidance, we will lay out how to get the most out of yourself without constantly sacrificing your personal and family life. Lees meer
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Introducing The Effective Senior Manager Conference
7 april 2025
Learn about our Effective Senior Manager Conference: its purpose, its agenda, its topics. If you’re a manager and are thinking about your career as a Senior Manager and even Executive, you need to learn why the job is different, and how to succeed.
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Internal Hiring Process - Chapter 1 - Development Feedback
31 maart 2025
Interviewing internal candidates is different than interviewing external candidates. Internal interviews are not just efforts to fill positions, but also part of professional development for your organization.
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Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's Calendar - Part 2
24 maart 2025
Part 2 of our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities. Lees meer
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Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's Calendar - Part 1
17 maart 2025
Our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities. Lees meer
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Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One On Ones - Part 2
10 maart 2025
Scheduling your One On Ones is surprisingly the most important component of One On Ones. Too many managers mistakenly believe that they are “too busy” to do One On Ones becuase of their full calendars. But scheduling them is actually more important than having weekly One On Ones. Why is that? Our data show why. And directs tell us why when we ask them. And for those who are just getting started, what rules should I use in scheduling my One On Ones. Lees meer
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Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One On Ones - Part 1
3 maart 2025
Scheduling your One On Ones is surprisingly the most important component of One On Ones. Too many managers mistakenly believe that they are “too busy” to do One On Ones becuase of their full calendars. But scheduling them is actually more important than having weekly One On Ones. Why is that? Our data show why. And directs tell us why when we ask them. And for those who are just getting started, what rules should I use in scheduling my One On Ones. Lees meer
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Why Is Negative Feedback So Hard? - Part 2
24 februari 2025
Lots of managers - hundreds of thousand, and perhaps millions by now - start doing Manager Tools One On Ones, and they love them. They love them because they work, and they’re not as hard as the manager thought they would be. And very few managers who do Manager Tools One On Ones never stop. Lees meer
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Why Is Negative Feedback So Hard? - Part 1
17 februari 2025
Lots of managers - hundreds of thousand, and perhaps millions by now - start doing Manager Tools One On Ones, and they love them. They love them because they work, and they’re not as hard as the manager thought they would be. And very few managers who do Manager Tools One On Ones never stop. Lees meer
But feedback is a different story. We would guess that around half of Manager Tools managers don’t ever fully implement feedback so that it’s second nature in a way that their directs know this is how their boss will talk to them about their performance. Why is it so hard?
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The Simple Quarterly Performance Review
10 februari 2025
Most managers think that performance reviews are their most significant contribution to performance management and improvement. But that’s wrong. Frequent feedback is the greatest tool we managers have to improve performance. In fact, performance reviews aren’t even really part of the performance improvement efforts managers engage in. Performance reviews are an organizational system that is primarily designed to help the organization manage succession planning. Lees meer
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The Purpose of Feedback - Part 3
3 februari 2025
Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it’s well received, it works, and frankly, it’s easy to get addicted to giving it. Lees meer
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The Purpose of Feedback - Part 2
27 januari 2025
Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it’s well received, it works, and frankly, it’s easy to get addicted to giving it. Lees meer
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The Purpose of Feedback - Part 1
20 januari 2025
Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it's well received, it works, and frankly, it's easy to get addicted to giving it. Lees meer
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A Basic Team Culture Model For Managers - Part 2
13 januari 2025
In this guidance, we share what we think the base culture ought to be for all managers. You may wish to add more - that can be fine. Just be careful you don't have too many culture touch points - at some point they'll start conflicting with each other. Lees meer
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A Basic Team Culture Model For Managers - Part 1
6 januari 2025
In this guidance, we share what we think the base culture ought to be for all managers. You may wish to add more - that can be fine. Just be careful you don't have too many culture touch points - at some point they'll start conflicting with each other. Lees meer
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Assumptive Goal Setting - HOF 2024
30 december 2024
Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.
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How to Set Annual Goals - HOF 2024
23 december 2024
Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.
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The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 2
16 december 2024
The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 2
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The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 1
9 december 2024
The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 1
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How To Get Subordinate Managers To Do One On Ones - Part 2
2 december 2024
How To Get Subordinate Managers To Do One On Ones