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Leadership Lessons from Fantasy Football
Tonight kicks off another season of NFL Football. To many, this is the most anticipated day of the year – especially to the millions of fantasy football players.
The editors of AskTheManager are fantasy football fanatics and we spent most of our draft last week discussing how fantasy football intersects with management [...]

Tags: Digression, Leadership Advice, Lessons from Pro Sports, Management

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty is highlighting one of the finest and funniest contests about leadership and management from the AFL-CIO…
FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
15 million workers in this country say they have a bad boss. A new survey also shows that 36 percent say they feel pressure to stay with said bad boss because of the [...]

Tags: Leadership, Management

Leadership versus Management
 
Included in the great debates of business today is the always interesting “Leadership v. Management” fight. Whenever I read an online business blog or leadership resource that tackles this seeming duality, I find it interesting that there seem to be only two ways this topic is presented…
 

Lists of overlapping similar and dissimilar characteristics [...]

Tags: Leadership, Leadership Advice, leadership development, Management, Management Training

I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but from all accounts of the Shawn Chacon v. Ed Wade brawl, Shawn was a little more than insubordinate.
 
Don’t know what I’m writing about? Former Houston Astros’ starting pitcher, turned reliever, Shawn Chacon was none to happy about his recent demotion to the bullpen. When reportedly called to [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership development, leadership news and views, Leadership Situations, Management, subordinates

I received the following question from a reader this week:
“My manager is a constant procrastinator, who seems to always fail at making decisions. It’s not that he makes bad decisions, he simply won’t ever make any decision. Whenever I approach him with a suggestion, he always wants me to go back and get more data. [...]

Tags: blog, Focus, inability to make decisions, Leadership Advice, leadership development, Management, management 101