11 Tips Every Career-Minded Harvard Alum Should Know and May Not

Becoming a Beloved Manager

My Tongue-in-Cheek Nominees for the President's Cabinet

Einstein for Chief of Staff

Three Minutes on How to Get Ahead

A Word With Marty: "MANAGEMENT"

Being a King is Overrated: a short-short story

"The Bitch" a short-short story

The Authoritarian Leader: How to succeed without a personality transplant

My Psychology Today article today describes an autocratic leader and how, without radically changing, he can be both effective and admired.

 

How to Run a Meeting Crisply

People often complain about too many meetings, meetings that run too long, and just meetings, generally. I run many meetings and my Psychology Today article today describes ways to ensure that they're efficient uses of time.

Becoming a Good Manager

My Psychology Today article today starts with a composite story of a disliked manager and then moves to questions I'd ask him.

Tips for Aspiring Leaders: Landing and succeeding in your first management job

The Fellows in a leadership training program at two top universities will be reading the following article that | wrote for that program. I thought it might be of value to others who are aspiring to management or leadership. So, it's my Psychology Today article today.

Five Musts in the Excellent Manager or Leader

Today, a client said she was nervous about getting promoted to her first position managing people. While we dealt with her psychological issues, she said she found the practical advice most helpful. So I thought I’d share that with you. They boiled down to five keys. I describe them in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Becoming a Great Manager or Leader

I am developing a leadership/management bootcamp for students at a local university. My Psychology Today article today adapts it for you, my readers. I offer the bootcamp's core content plus an easily doable activity that enables you to apply that content even if you’re not currently in a managerial or leadership role.

You can complete this bootcamp by yourself or with one or more respected colleagues or friends

Leaders’ Tough COVID Task: Handling a corona-caused layoff

Sure, being a leader is prestigious and often lucrative. But there are downsides, some of which are more common amid the COVID economic shutdown, for example, having to lay off people.
Of course, every situation and every leader is different, but my Psychology Today article today offers one way that painful situation might be approached. After, I’ll list the principles that were embedded.

A Mock Career Counseling Session

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer a mock career counseling session. In it, the chair of a psychology department is trying to change its emphasis from applied psychology to basic research.

Moving Up: All things considered

I’ve written previously on career tips for people who want to climb the career ladder, for example, Why Can't I Get Promoted? But those articles were in standard form: an annotated list. Some people learn better when advice is embedded in a context, hence as my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer a composite story.

Leadership Lessons from Four Presidents: Part 1: Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book is Leadership: in turbulent times. It profiles Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson.

In this first installment of a four-part series in Psychology Today, I offer quotes from the book that address what made Lincoln successful. The subsequent installments will do the same for the other three.

An Interview with CIsco's John Chambers: "America's Best Boss"

ABC’s 20-20 did a feature on  Cisco Systems’ CEO John Chambers called “The Best Boss in America.” And Chambers grew his company from 400 employees to 70,000 including 10,000 who became millionaires. In addition,  he’s been advisor to presidents Clinton and Bush and French President Macron, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, and King Abdullah of Jordan and thus named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world.

He's written a new book: Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World.

I interviewed him on my KALW (NPR-San Francisco) radio program, Work with Marty Nemko. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers edited highlights:

Tips on Management And Leadership

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer  are what I hope are some valuable yet not-obvious tips from my new book Careers for Dummies on how to be an effective, even beloved manager or leader.