Bruce Tulgan is the founder of RainmakerThinking Inc., a management training firm. His latest book is It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss. He is also the author of It’s Okay to Be the Boss, Managing Generation X, and a number of other books. He has written pieces for numerous publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, and HR Magazine. He can be reached by e-mail at brucet@rainmakerthinking.com. For more information, visit www.rainmakerthinking.com.
Why do most managers fail to spend enough time attending to the basics of managing people? When asked why, they almost always give some variant of the same reasons - the top seven management myths.