Managing bosses and peers

Between Bosses and Boosters:

The study of leadership has become a serious industry in America in the past decade. It shows activities on commercial and academic levels resulting in the publication of hundreds of how-to-become-a-leader guides per year and more than 1,000 degree programs. A four-volume Encyclopedia of Leadership seeks to mark the transition of the study of leadership from a specialist hobby to a mature acade...

DB-Enabled Peers for Managing Distributed Data

Six per cent rise for trust bosses.

A SURVEY which shows that NHS trust chief executives' pay has been rising by more than double the percentage of nurses' pay has provoked anger in nursing organisations.

The hidden advantages of quiet bosses.

Whereas just 50% of the general population is extroverted, 96% of managers and executives display extroverted personalities. And the higher you go in a corporate hierarchy, the more likely you are to find highly extroverted individuals. The chart below, based on a 2009 study of 4,000 managers across U.S. industries, shows the percentage of managers at each level who display high levels of extro...

The silent and shameful suffering of bosses: layoffs in SME

Of all the decisions that managers of SME have to make, laying off someone is the most difficult as well as the hardest to live with. Layoffs are often seen as a personal failure with mental and psychological consequences that can be disastrous for both the person laid off and the employer responsible. Curiously, the suffering experienced by the employer is never mentioned in the SME context. T...