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An upcoming book entitled ‘Rock Roadie’ is claimed to be an insider information from one of the former production assistants of legendary rock singer Jimi Hendrix. According to James ‘Tappy’ Wright, one of Hendrix’s roadies, Hendrix’s manager Michael Jeffery, ‘made a drunken confession a year after the star’s death in September 1970’ [...]

Conflict is a given reality in any organization. So long as there is an organization of human beings, there will always be conflict. This is because any organization has a diversity of individuals. There are Conflict Management Strategies that can be used when in conflict situations. Some managers use ‘Forcing.’ This seems to augur well with the [...]

There are a lot of managers but very few leaders. The difference between managers and leaders is the method they use on their followers or subordinates. How they motivate people to believe in them and follow their orders determines the quality of how they conduct the activities at their level. In other words, how a person engages other people for the [...]

The debate over leadership versus management will not help organizations as this debate only produces useless stereotypes. Leadership and management are both important, but they seek to do different things. Management has the inherent implication that if the organization is doing well, little or no change is needed. However, the business environments [...]

Managers have subordinates that they can pass on and delegate a breakdown of the main tasks to. They also have authority to carry out the goals of the organization in either an authoritarian way where the subordinates can act as robots or in a transactional way where he makes sure that following orders has its rewards. The essence of a manager is stability [...]

Managers manage organizational resources, timelines, and logistics. Leaders influence people and sway their attitudes and behavior towards what will make the organization more efficient and effective. Managers take on the job that mandates and necessitates planning, organizing, control, coordination, directing, budgeting, strategizing, making decisions, [...]