As a weekly nationally syndicated columnist with GateHouse Media, over the course of the year I publish 52 columns on a wide variety of management topics. These topics were inspired by questions from readers, important business trends, and core management values and activities. Then, at year end, I organized them in a way to help you answer the following types of questions. Ok, you were promoted to manager. Now what? What is your management style and is it effective? How can you successfully lead your team? How do you deal with difficult employees? How do you effectively communicate with...

As a former senior IT executive, I gained the knowledge and experience to write for ITworld based on my personal experience moving through the IT ranks, mentoring and growing my staff, and thinking about the great advice I was given by my managers and mentors. Over the past year, I posted 52 blogs/columns on a wide variety of IT career related topics inspired by questions from readers, discussions with participants in my company's training classes, industry trends, and my personal experiences, both good and bad, as an IT professional. As you will see in the Table of Contents, these columns...