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Practical management skills you can use this week. Host Mamie Kanfer Stewart helps managers close the gap between knowing what good management looks like and actually doing it.Each week brings either a short solo lesson with one tool you can use right away, or a conversation with an expert on topics like feedback, difficult conversations, delegation, meetings, strategic thinking, team culture, collaboration and using AI at work.Get new episodes and one-page takeaways by email: https://www.themodernmanager.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchPractical management skills you can use this week. Host Mamie Kanfer Stewart helps managers close the gap between knowing what good management looks like and actually doing it.
The Modern Manager is hosted by Mamie Kanfer Stewart. The show has published 438 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "431: How to Delegate Without Micromanaging: Define What Done Looks Like" (27 October 2026, 9 minutes), "430: How to Overcome Resistance to Change on Your Team with Tony Chatman" (20 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "428: How Grateful Leaders Build Teams No One Wants to Leave with TJ Sweet" (6 October 2026, 29 minutes).
The Modern Manager publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 20 minutes across 438 episodes.
Booking probability for The Modern Manager is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Modern Manager requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Modern Manager's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Modern Manager are Business & Professional Training and Business & Management Consulting. The Modern Manager has a business audience.
Mamie Kanfer Stewart hosts The Modern Manager, a business podcast with 438 episodes published.
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Learning how to delegate without micromanaging starts before you hand anything off. You ask for something that feels perfectly clear, and it comes back reasonable, thoughtful, and not at all what you wanted. The problem...
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Want to overcome resistance to change on your team? Start by noticing that the loudest pushback usually isn't the real problem. Hidden resistance often looks like nodding along in the meeting, then quietly sticking to...
Some days, gratitude feels like something for people with calmer inboxes. Someone dropped the ball, you're three meetings deep, and "thank you" is the last thing on your mind. But gratitude that only shows up on easy...
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Planning an agenda feels like it takes forever, so too often, we skip it or do it poorly at the last minute. But that’s often because we treat each meeting like we’re starting from scratch. Instead, what if you...
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Most of what happens in a workday, from how you open a meeting to how you respond to bad news, runs on autopilot. Habits, not decisions, are doing the heavy lifting. Behavior scientist BJ Fogg explains why willpower...
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Most AI tools promise to make you more productive, but few actually remove the friction hiding in your daily grind. This episode breaks down four AI tools used every single day, not for the novelty, but for the real...
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Save your seat for the free, live masterclass From Knowing to Doing: https://www.themodernmanager.com/webinar Most leaders pour all their energy into managing the people who report to them and forget the other...
Save your seat for the free, live masterclass From Knowing to Doing: https://themodernmanager.com/webinar Most of us have an instinctual positive response to great work.“This is amazing, thank you so much.” It feels...
That stomach-drop feeling before a hard conversation? It's not weakness. It's your brain doing exactly what it was designed to do. Emotional intelligence expert Amy Jacobson breaks down the neuroscience of avoidance...
Picture a room stuck for three weeks on one sentence for a new policy. Half the team wants a rule tight enough to enforce, the other half wants it loose enough to survive real life. Nobody's wrong, and nobody's moving...
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Your team isn't falling apart because something went wrong. It's falling apart because that's what teams do by default, drifting toward disconnection unless someone actively counteracts it. Lucky for us, there are four...
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You say yes to the small stuff: the draft review, the book recommendation, the shampoo run. Then Thursday comes and none of it has happened. No one complains, but something quietly cracks. Every broken commitment, even...
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Some of the best leadership lessons don't come from business books. Throughout history, different cultures have developed wisdom for how we can interact with and lead others. By exploring what different cultures value...
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Hitting the goal doesn’t always mean the project was a success. A project can finish on time, hit every target, and look like a clear win on the dashboard while quietly burning out the team, damaging trust, or leaving...
Difficult conversations are rarely difficult because we don't know what to say. More often, they fall apart because we have the conversation at the wrong time, in the wrong way, or without realizing that the other...
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Most onboarding plans focus on helping new hires feel welcome and settled in their role. But the real purpose of onboarding isn't orientation; it's creating clarity before misunderstandings become habits and before...
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Most managers know they should spend more time thinking strategically. The problem is that strategy often gets crowded out by urgent tasks, endless decisions, and the pressure to solve today's problems. But strategic...
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When a meeting becomes tense, your natural instinct might be to calm things down. But when emotions start rising, the real problem usually isn’t the conflict itself. It’s that something important is at stake, and the...
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Managers often say they want more accountability on their teams. But accountability often feels like micromanaging people, chasing updates, or constantly correcting mistakes. In fact, many accountability problems begin...
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Some team conflicts seem to get resolved quickly. Others keep resurfacing in meeting after meeting, leaving everyone frustrated and no closer to a solution. In this episode, I explain why certain disagreements are so...
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Behavior Scientist and Expert on Habit Formation, Stanford University Behavior Design Lab
Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, Kristen Harcourt Coaching & Leadership Development
author of The Emotional Intelligence Advantage: Mastering Change and Difficult Conversations, UND's Special Education Resident Teacher Program
Vice President & Godfather of Talent Optimization, The Predictive Index
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