9 Management Zingers: Posts Managers Must Read
I strongly invite you to read the following 9 posts to enhance your personal and professional management development.
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Debra Owen has a wonderful post on the thoughts of Ralph Waldo Emerson: insist on yourself; never imitate. your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Steve Roesler outlines how change happens in the middle: It means re-thinking the time, energy, direction, and education invested in the managers who will determine the success or failure of the change initiative.
Skip Reardon writes about Marshall Goldsmith’s 6 steps to ensure alignment including: How can I help? and What suggestions do you have for me?
Cheryl Cran warned us that we will be working for Generation Y one day: Be prepared to one day be working for Generation Y if not full time, at least on a project basis. Unless of course you yourself have the entrepreneurial bug and then you will be hiring or marketing to them.
Curt Rosengren has launched the M.A.P. Maker blog: M.A.P. (Meaning, Abundance, & Passion) Making incorporates three key components of a vibrant, meaningful, sustainable life. Meaning and Passion provide the energy and fuel, while Abundance addresses creating a sustainable reality.
Carmine Coyote implores us to become winners through patience: Given the patience to wait before reaching a definite decision, much may become clear that was murky or hidden before. It ought to be a no-brainer to be patient while reaching any important decision. It isn’t, mostly because today people value action for its own sake.
George Ambler encourages us to recall the paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith, for example: Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
Leo Babauta offers 15 great decluttering tips, many of which we could apply to our offices: Gift everything. Books you’ve read immediately get recycled among friends, family or local libraries.
Rosa Say had this compelling title to a recent blog We are bronco bull riders, We hang tough: If you are the leader of a business, when do you want to say “we” and talk about your “we” to get an effective message across?
Don’t say “nein” to these posts — say yes to these nine by clicking in and reading thoroughly. They will help you become an even better manager.
David Zinger loves the breadth of blogs on management.
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