A few weeks ago, I re-posted a two-part opinion piece in which I criticized management advice books, a genre of the self-help literature that occupies whole shelves at most brick-and-mortar bookstores. These texts just aren’t worth the time you might spend reading one, I argued. Yet as I also acknowledged, what they set out to do isn’t as easy as it sounds. Coming up with useful advice a manager might actually put into practice is next to impossible – or at least based on how most writers today approach the subject. And to drive this point home, I put out the call to you, dear reader, to see if you could do any better. What is it, I asked, that “good” managers do—or do well—that makes them so good? So this week, a post based on your