Management and Leadership

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The book is aimed at helping managers and leaders move the needle by transforming disengaged workers to motivated employees, shifting doubt into confidence, and progressing from management to leadership.Management and Leadership are taught in almost all MBA programs. Many schools require these topics in an opening class. Paraphrasing a renowned physicist, Robert Oppenheimer, physics would be really hard if particles could talk.In the study of Management and Leadership, we focus on people. People talk, talk back, and come with different preferences, attitudes, and personalities. Some work less, some work more. Some are more agreeable, some are less open-minded. Some are happy and some are grumpy. Yet, managers and leaders need to motivate all employees. Good luck doing this in a factually-informed way without some training in these topics. What power-holders do is often at odds with the best evidence. Learning how to motivate and lead employees is fundamental to an organization's success. Half-truths de jour are dangerous because they can be partly right. However, these myths are misleading often enough to get many organizations into serious trouble.This book relies on classic theories that have been empirically supported. Why? Evidence-based answers can be applied with a dose of certainty. Motivational speakers and folk psychologists ought not be taken seriously, even if they are entertaining. Making business choices based on fiery proclamations, flimsy data, and equivocal recommendations leads to questionable results. Instead, our goal in writing this book is to present management and leadership topics in a useful manner while drawing on the foundational empirical research.Tolstoy opens up his novel Anna Karenina with this unforgettable line:"Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Organizations must assemble the right mix of ingredients to produce a recipe for success. Misery is more idiosyncratic, but few things in business bring a company down faster than a demotivated workforce antagonized by insolent leadership and ineffective management.In our conversations with leaders, a common theme emerges: many did not have an opportunity to study the psychology of leadership before they found themselves consumed by its demands. They recollect how it was only after their leadership tenure ended that they found time to study the subject that had filled their lives for decades.This book fills this gap by giving the reader an introduction to concepts in the study of management and leadership.