Managing Yourself. A Survival Guide for Leaders. Leadership is often viewed as an exciting and glamorous endeavor, one in which you inspire others to follow you through good times and bad. But such a portrayal ignores leadership's dark side: the inevitable attempts to take you out of the game. This is particularly true when a leader must steer an organization through difficult change. A few basic rules can help you avoid the perils.

The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching. Executive coaching may sound like a good idea, but buyer beware. Coaches often make bad situations worse. When you have an executive with a problem, a psychological evaluation should be your first step on the way to a solution.

The People Who Make Organizations Go-or Stop. The real work in most companies is done informally, through personal contacts and conversations that don't necessarily follow the same path as the org chart. How can executives manage such amorphous networks? Start by focusing on those employees in informal networks who play four critical roles.