Marcus Buckingham, in his 2005 Harvard Business Review article “What Great Managers Do,” said that average managers play checkers, great managers play chess, and great leaders rally people around what is universal and capitalize on that (Buckingham, 2005). As someone who prefers leadership to management, I agree with this sentiment. The average managerContinue reading “Checker-playing Managers vs. Chess-playing Managers: Thinking Strategically”