How do you get to work? When work is over, how do you get home?
You may be thinking that I have lost my mind with such a simple question but sometimes the simple questions are the most significant questions.
I have asked this question of thousands of managers and the most frequent response is: I get […]
Ron from The Cube Monkey shared some great tips on how to recession proof your career and yourself. Among the tips that resonated with me:
#3: Add 120% value and promote yourself
#6: Be nice (defined as helping other members of the team and motivating to be around)
Phil’s note: I especially resonate with #6! The old saying […]
What are the ropes that connect you to the people you manage and how strongly are you connected to them?
I have lived my whole life on the prairies. We live at about 780 feet above sea level. Yet there is something about Mount Everest that calls to me. Unfortunately, last week, Sir Edmund Hillary died. […]
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Slacker Manager Ranked #15 Career Blog by RiseSmart
Contact: Phil Gerbyshak
phil.gerbyshak@b5media.com
RiseSmart recently ranked the top 100 career blogs and as of January 13th, 2008, b5 Media’s Slacker Manager has been listed at #15. Other outstanding blogs honored include Tom Peters at #1, Business Pundit at #3 and Chief Happiness Officer at #4. b5 media’s […]
In addition to sharing 7 sure-fire ways to boost productivity, Dr. Susan Reid has been kind enough to share a copy of her book Discovering Your Inner Samurai with 1 lucky reader.
How can you win a copy? Answer 1 question in the comments, and I’ll pick a winner at random on Friday January 18th, 2008.
What’s […]
Management ZINGERS from Slacker Manager offers you 5 eclectic resources on management. Each of the 5 ZINGERS will include:
the title or author of the post with a click-able link to the article
a short comment about the post
a snippet from the actual post.
It is a real dilemma with so much information to determine what to read.
I […]
This is a guest post from Dr. Susan L. Reid. Susan will be answering questions on Slacker Manager today, so please leave her a comment and she’ll answer any questions you might have. Have fun!
There’s something in the air. Can’t you just feel it? It’s the anticipation of 2008 being the greatest year ever.
For some […]
We are now into our second week in 2008. Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Are you still on track with them or do they seem as far away as Resolute Bay, one of Canada’s northernmost communities and one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of minus 16.4°C?
Click […]
A few years back, the previous writer at Slacker Manager took on a new job, and shared a really cool tool: a single page, strategic agenda for the first 100 days on the job. You can read Bren’s original First 100 Days article. If memory serves, that was one of the first articles I read […]
Recently I shared 7 Strategies for Effective Distributed Teams, and asked the readers to share their best practices. Sarah Heal stepped up to the plate to share her best practices for working on a distributed team. She also has a nifty blog called Desire Lines.
Here’s what Sarah says:
We’re a small business that has only ever […]
In a recent set of interviews, the Harvard Business Review revealed that work/life balance is the major challenge for managers and leaders in 2008.
Here are my 8 simple rules to restore work/life balance:
Ask yourself: Am I ready, willing, and able to change? Are you serious about creating better balance or is it just something you’d like […]
Recently Linda Ford shared Beware - Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch that created quite a flurry of comments. It was so interesting, I had to ask Linda a few questions to learn more about her philosophies and her wonderful book.
So now I share with you a few questions with Linda, in an interview I’m calling:
Gorillas […]
Via the Future of Work Weblog comes this great article about the 7 Strategies for Effective Distributed Teams. The 7 strategies they share are:
1. Introduce benchmarks to assess/measure performance
2. Standardise your implementation strategy
3. Understand it’s much more than technology
4. Be prepared to remodel existing business processes
5. Not right for some - Ideal for others
6. Maintaining […]
Is your organization geared up to manage, master, and transform the ways work and the workplace has been changing?
Corporate Agility outlines a new model for competing in a flat world. Corporate Agility: A Revolutionary New Model for Competing in a Flat World was written by Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware, and Cory Williamson.
Does your workplace produce […]
I recently finished listening to 3 Signs of a Miserable Job by Pat Lencioni. It’s another book like Lencioni’s other books (5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Silos and Turf Wars, Death by Meeting and 5 Temptations of a CEO, all also really well done) in that it’s told as a fable. For me, that makes […]
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