About Mark Murphy

I'm the founder of Leadership IQ, a New York Times bestselling author, a Senior Contributor to Forbes, and my work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Inc., CNBC, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more.

Why I started The Last Manager Standing

I've spent my whole career as a champion of leadership, because I've watched up close how much a good manager shapes an organization's success and an employee's development. But every so often the business world talks itself into believing that managers are just overhead; a layer to flatten, a cost to cut, a relic to retire. We've done it before, more than once, and we usually end up quietly rebuilding the very thing we tore down.

I started The Last Manager Standing to push back on this latest round of shortsighted attacks on middle managers, and to give the good ones the research, the tactics, and the receipts to prove they were never overhead in the first place, they're one of the greatest sources of an organization's competitive advantage.

Over the years I've written numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They'll Give You Even More; Hiring for Attitude (featured in Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and selected as a top business book by CNBC); HARD Goals: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be; Truth at Work: The Science of Delivering Tough Messages; The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention; Managing Narcissists, Blamers, Dramatics, and More; and my latest, Team Players: The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build a Winning Team.

Along the way I've been fortunate enough to lecture at the United Nations, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, Charles Schwab, Aflac, and hundreds of other organizations spanning virtually every industry. And I've turned up on CNN, NPR, CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC's 20/20, and Fox Business News.