Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …

Management texts have long been prescriptive regarding management practice, recommending managers do this, and managers … gone into the field to observe just what managers actually do. Change management literature tends to be prescriptive … empirical information discussing what effective change managers actually do. This paper aims to present empirical data from a …

manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …