Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. Middle manager." Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

Books 243

Books Leadership Middle Management Chemicals 243

The Recovering Engineer

JULY 13, 2010

To hear the full interview, check out From Bud to Boss at The Cranky Middle Manager. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. Learn More… What Do You Think?

Workshop 194

Workshop Middle Management Engineering FAQ 194

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

I reached out to him because I was impressed with how he steered DSM from its chemicals company past to its broad, science-based innovator present; from a Dutch company to a global player; and from a completely male-run organization to a more gender balanced leadership team. How did he do it? That’s what Sijbesma tried to do.

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” As they learn to work as a team, that attitude perpetuates itself in the teams under their purview.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8