This week in leadership

Often, in the later stages of the selection process of the team leader, the meeting of the candidate with future subordinates is also planned by the company.

What are the issues that leaders and HR must focus their attention on in the new year? I will give a brief overview of the conversations I had with top managers, HR executives and also entrepreneurs in the last weeks of December.

I recently listened to an interview with Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff on  Yahoo Finance. He stressed the importance  of keeping  a “beginner´s” mindset in business and management.

For a specialist, an exciting moment in his/her professional life emerges when he/she is proposed to take up the position of a team leader. 

What critical success factors are important for succeeding as a first-line manager, which ones as a middle manager,  and how much does the focus change  when moving from  one role to another?