Everyone knows that work can put a damper on your family life. If you haven’t decided to completely jettison your family, as I suggested in a previous post, this tip might help.
It’s easy to get carried away at the office, and end up working 6 or 7 hours past your usual working […]
Do you fully live your days as a manager or are you just dazed as a manager?
What do you see in the picture below?
Take the following 7 item test to determine your management focus:
I know what day it is?
I know what time it is?
I know who I am?
I know what I am supposed to do?
I […]
Looking to unleash the Wow Factor in your business? If you’re managing people, you need more Wow and less Bleh so you can get even greater results from those around you, and from you!
How can you do it? Start by admitting you can’t do it alone, and that it’s a team game. The more […]
This post is from Cheryl Cran based on her book about The Control Freak Revolution.
It may seem odd to think that a control freak could be a good thing. Not so odd in my opinion. Many leaders are labeled a control freak by sheer nature of being in leadership. An Australian survey of 385 employees from around […]
In a recent post about hiring great people, Rosa Say shared this comment:
You’ve struck somewhat of a nerve with me within this posting, because while I’m realistic about not expecting people to be completely turned on high at work all the time, we settle for way too much mediocrity in life. As far as the […]
A recent check of Slacker Manager indicated this is an A list blog.
Groupings Explained:
The Low Authority Group [D-List Bloggers]
(3-9 blogs linking in the last 6 months)
The average blog age (the number of days that the blog has been in existence) is about 228 days, which shows a real commitment to blogging. However, bloggers of this type […]
Here are 5 Management Zingers - Some of the best leadership and management articles from the WEB during the past week. If you want to go directly to the post or article, click on the title at the front of each zinger.
Monolithic and Holographic Organizations by Chris Bailey on the Alchemy of Soulful Work is […]
“It’s better to train your people and have them leave than it is to not train them and they stay or they don’t get training and they leave.” - Phil Gerbyshak
OK, so it’s no shock I’m a HUGE proponent of training. I write at 3 blogs frequently (Slacker Manager obviously, Make It Great! and Joyful […]
Here are some key questions NOT to ask yourself as a manager:
Why am I doing this?
How come when I look at all the hours I put in I make less per hour than the people I manage?
How did my boss ever get to be the boss?
How did this person end up in my department?
Why does […]
Last night I facilitated a discussion at the Brew City HDI chapter around this question:
How do you hire great people?
With no exception, the answer was “I hire for soft skills and teach the technical skills.” These were the “soft skills” the managers I talked with said were most important:
Attention to detail
Written communication
Verbal communication
Attitude
Willingness to learn new […]
Years ago there was a popular book called The One Minute Manager. Who has a minute anymore in 2008? We need to shorten our management time cycles.
Why read a textbook when you can text? Why read when you can scan? Why have a conversation when you can interact with the people you manage with just two […]
Michael Kanazawa is co-author of the book BIG Ideas to BIG Results, and has a blog under the same name.
There are a lot of ways to try to make your job easier. You can re-engineer complete processes, install new IT systems, and reorganize your organization. But, do those really make life easier? And […]
Here are my current top 5 management ZINGERS.
Business Intelligence - BI #16 - Business with Purpose Part 1: This is an informative podcast from the Canadian Management Centre on the central importance of purpose for good companies to go to great. John Eckmire interviews Nikos Mourkogiannis. Some of the same concepts could apply to individual managers.
Simple questions […]
Guest article by K.P. Springfield, author of the 5 Habits of Highly Successful Slackers
A little about the book: America has become a “burnout nation” of corporate employees who can never escape the miserable grips of work. New technologies, excessive middle management and growing profitability pressures only scratch the surface of this developing […]
If you don’t love what you do.
Stop paying your dues.
Look for loving clues,
For work that you can say, “I DO.”
by David Zinger
Photo Credit: Happy Valentine’s Day! by http://flickr.com/photos/sis/98171915/
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Written by David Zinger [email], and Phil Gerbyshak [email] for b5media.
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