We all know the habits of highly successful managers but what about the unhabits?
If you want to be a highly successful manager who “kicks butts” you will need to break the following 37 habits:
View screens all day long while screening out the people you manage.
Put work before life as in the term work/life balance.
Believe that high […]
There are many qualities great managers might have, but I’ve found 4 that run through the veins of all the great managers I’ve encountered. If you want to become a great manager, start with these 4 qualities, and work forward from here.
Accountable for results - too often managers worry about all the details. Great managers […]
Make sure this month is November not KNOWvember!
Section A: Here is a management knowledge quiz:
How many management courses have you taken this year?
How many management blog post have you read?
How many management books have your read?
How many ideas or suggestions have your heard from others?
How many good management ideas have you generated?
Section B: Here is […]
I love quotes. I collect quotes. And I’m on the lookout for great management quotes that I can use in presentations and to help me make points in my writing. From time to time, I’ll be sharing some interesting management quotes, for you to think about and see if they resonate with you.
“Management is nothing […]
The BlackBerry is my Connector
The BlackBerry is my connector,
I shall not sit idle
IT makes me never sit in empty meetings
IT leads me out of still downtime
IT restores my date book
IT leads me in the path of write-eousness
For IT is my companion.
Even thought I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of too much information
I fear not […]
I am searching for inspiring videos to start each day in 2008. I need your help to be inspired and fired up in 2008.
I ask for your help in finding at least 52, and up to 365, short 1 to 6 minute online videos that can be used as inspiration to start our day or week. I […]
Michelle Malay Carter - made a very interesting an interesting point on a recent article I wrote titled Quit Trying to Push a Rope:
Resistors very often are people who need to be promoted, not “gotten rid of”. The reason why they resist is because they are being expected to submit to the leadership of someone […]
Management Zingers will help charge up your management.
Here are 6 Management Zingers, blog posts that can add some zing to your management.
Jodee Bock, from Fargo, writes about “No, really what do you want?”: very few people ever really get serious about dreaming about what they really want in their lives, whether that’s at work or […]
I’m always on the lookout for free stuff to keep myself, and the various folks I work, with motivated. One of my favorite authors and motivators is Steve Farber. Steve wrote 2 of my favorite books on leadership, Radical Leap and Radical Edge, and of course he’s blogging a bit at Steve Farber.com. I’d […]
One of the coolest things about writing this blog is that people send me cool stuff to read and, if it’s good, to share a review with you. Usually I just get management books to review, and though I appreciate that VERY MUCH, I’ve always hoped for more. Like an office chair or a […]
Regular readers of Slacker Manager know that I hold the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in high esteem.
Although the target audience is C-level leaders I believe anyone at any level of management can benefit by reading the HBR. The articles are well-written, they include wonderful illustrations, and the printed journal includes an eclectic collection of business […]
Eric Eggerston might have been talking about public relations when he said:
“People will not be led if they don’t want to be. If you can find a way to document the impact of inaction, they may be ready to change course six months from now. Maybe never.”
but think about this for your management life.
Are you […]
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