Being a manager is a tough job, but someone has to do it. Do it well.

Encourage your team to truly be experts in what they proclaim to be and do.

A five step approach that may help ease the pain of the potential layoffs.

How will colleagues, employees, customers, vendors, and others remember you?

This article discusses the importance of diversity as a quality of leadership making a distinction between managing diversity in the here and now and taking a long term leadership perspective which focuses on the business benefits of a proactive diversity program.

Got a bad boss or toxic leader in your life?  Do you work for a supervisor whose approach is, "My way or the highway?" Toxic leadership is hard to live with, but with a little patience and ingenuity, you can do more than just survive.

Having the ability to look through the smoke and glass of our titles and roles can really clarify our own vision. I call this getting "naked" as a leader. This means avoiding the most common errors in leading people, such as not showing them respect, being excessively bottom-line oriented and putting people in the dog house when they don't live up to expectations.

Some managers are controlling because they are afraid of not surviving. Fear drives them to want to avoid such feelings by tightening their grip on their world, including people who report to them, but acting out of fear is always self-defeating.