Delegating

Five Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer

In unstable times the routines organizations use to get work done often break down. When that happens, teams need to shift gears quickly and add two other...

The burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them.

Four common traps to avoid.

Simply handing off a project isn’t enough.

To spend enough time working on a business, you can’t devote yourself to working in it.

Manage through principles, not just processes.

A TV producer struggles to balance three hit shows and a new pilot.

How to finally get out of the weeds.

It’s time to drop the excuses.

Five ways to ensure follow-through on an ask.

Salespeople writing fake sales orders. Cashiers “borrowing” from incoming revenues. Production workers leaving the factory with spare parts and finished products. These were among the control problems that dogged the author of this article over 12 years of running his company. Ironically, they occurred not during business crises but during periods of growth and prosperity. […]

High-profile, emotionally charged projects have made Libeskind’s reputation.

Being in charge is about shaping decisions, not always making them.

If your most trusted people are spread too thin, they won't get much done.

It has been said that when Republicans wanted to drum up financial support all they had to do was invoke the name of Ted Kennedy in a piece of direct...

Six strategies to help get it back on track.

Want to demonstrate that you have what it takes to be an effective leader and have people follow your direction? Be humble! That lesson echoed with me as I read a David Brooks column in the New York Times in which he describes listening to an archival recording of “Command Performance,” a radio variety show […]

It's OK not to be available all the time.

How to free up as much as 20% of your workday to focus on the responsibilities that really matter.