Don’t get me wrong, I love fun at work I just resent when someone says we must have FUN at work. This is when I feel like one of Michael Scott’s (NBC television show The Office) employees who are coerced into engaging in FUNtivities.
My Master’s thesis was on humor in counseling. Humor and playfulness are my top signature […]
Bain & Co. recently published their annual report about the top Management Tools of 2007. Some of their best include:
Strategic planning
Customer relationship management
Benchmarking
Mission and vision statements
Core competencies
Knowledge management
Strategic alliances
Of course there are quite a few more listed there that you can learn from. I cherry picked my favorite 7.
What about you? What do YOU see […]
Phil and I have been working on an updated Slacker Manager profile. We created two images to represent Slacker Managers.
We thank John Junson for his playful and inspiring art on this project.
We used a donkey to represent some of our fun and playfulness important in successful management. If we take ourselves too seriously as managers, we […]
One must talk little and listen much ~ African Proverb
Here is an extra weekend resource extending the contribution on They’re at the Post: Winning Managment Articles.
Are you listening?
Kent Blumberg has written an informative post on listening for leaders. The post includes the following resources:
Kent’s e-book summary of Gallup’s elements of great managing.
A brief active listening […]
Here is the review of 4 winning management articles written this week:
John Moore at Brant Autopsy has an insightful post on: Why is Everyone Smiling? This post is based on Paul Speigelman’s work at Beryl. One of Paul’s key management practices is: Employees should always expect fun just around the corner. Read this post right to the end […]
On this fantastic Friday, I’m giving away books from my leadership library to a few lucky random readers that answer this question in the comments:
Who are you and what’s 1 question we can answer or 1 thing you want to see here at Slacker Manager?
You also could do us a favor and complete our survey, […]
Slacker Managers are readers. Of course, you are reading this right now, so it proves my point!
BNET has done a provocative piece on the 10 most overrated and 10 most underrated business books. Read the 2 lists below to see where they might have put a book you love or loathe.
Here are their 10 OVERRATED books:
Reengineering the […]
Are you ready to grab GEMO and go with it?
This September, I have accelerated my accomplishments on a lot of projects and new initatives because I found GEMO.
GEMO is an acronym for Good Enough, Move On. It helps avoid perfectionism, dithering, delays, and other productivity traps and snarls.
Here is how you practice it. You work at something, you […]
If you’re a manager, you should be having weekly meetings with each person on your team. Why? To make it easier for you to do your job as a manager by having documentation of what’s happened and what expectations are for what’s about to happen.
So how can you do this without spending a lot of […]
How engaged are you as a manager? How engaged is your workforce? Are you forcing or inviting employees to be engaged?
Engaged employees are fully involved in, and enthusiastic about, their work. They demonstrate high levels of alignment and commitment to the organization.
Would you like to learn more about engagement?
You are invited to attend a free international […]
Recently I started using iGoogle, a personalized Google portal similar to PageFlakes and others I’ve tried in the past. I wasn’t sure how useful this could be to me as a manager, probably because I never took the time to play with these pages…until now.
Before I share what I’m using, you’ll need to sign up […]
What are you reading as a Slacker Manager?
Here is a brief outline of 3 excellent management posts that were published this week:
Employee Needs, Silent Communication and What to Do. This is a short and insightful post by the thoughtful and funny Steve Roesler at All Things Workplace about the power of silence in work. Is silence golden? How […]
How do you search? Most of us use Google yet how many of us will advance our search with one extra click to get the results we are really looking for.
Perhaps you are looking only for PowerPoint presentations or you want to find some free music that you can use without any restraints on copyright […]
In my 33 years on this planet, I’ve learned a lot about change. I’ve learned that it’s better to save change than to spend it, I’ve learned…
Wait! Not THAT kind of change. The kind of change I mean is the changes managers must deal with EVERY day in order to lead their team. I’m […]
Alexander Kuzmin, the Canadian business school graduated mayor of a western Siberian city, has banned 27 phrases in his workplace. If city officials utter these phrases it “will speed their departure.”
Of course in the Russia of old, they used to send you to Siberia if you were in trouble so I wonder where officials will […]
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