According to a recent article in the Boston Business Journal, Harvard Business Publishing has launched a new Web site for leadership development professionals who are seeking out interactive learning experiences and information on talent management and strategy, according to the organization. You can find the new site at www.harvardbusiness.org/corporate, and they promise it will be […]
For March 2008, it is my pleasure to honor Roger “Rocky” Noe as our Golden Slacker. Rocky is the author of the Hillbilly PHD blog, one of the most straightforward places you can get your dose of leadership.
What is Hillbilly PHD, and why is it so darn inspiring? I’ll let you read what Rocky has […]
Don’t go into work with a frog in your throat rather get yourself ready to leap into management with these surefire success tips that are guaranteed to have you leapfrogging over others into the upper echelons of leadership in no time.
Here are your 9 success tips for the first day of being a new manager:
Clip your nose hairs […]
Here are this week’s Management Zingers
My common theme for Zingers is to outline 5 blog posts that stood out during the week. This weekend I want to do something a little different.
Instead of 5 different sites I am strongly encouraging you to visit Joyful Jubilant Learning.
The month of March is devoted to a fantastic range of book […]
The folks over at College Degree just released a new great list listing the top 100 productivity and lifehack blogs, and I’m proud to share that Slacker Manager made the list…at #10! Wow!
Here’s what they said about Slacker Manager:
“Slackers can be productive. Wanna know how? Check out Slacker Manager, the blog that gives easy tips […]
What are the 5 keys to mastering management? How well are you practicing these keys?
George Leonard wrote about mastery in Esquire magazine in 1987 and then wrote the book Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment in 1991. It is a book I re-read every couple of years. Click here to read Bren’s post […]
Michael Lee Stallard, author of Fired Up or Burned Out, has an outstanding new Change This manifesto you can download (for free) called The Connection Culture.
Michael shares 3 points that he recognized about connection are HUGE:
First, connection is a powerful force that creates a positive bond between people based on both rational and emotional factors.
Second, […]
What is your management capacity?
Do you want to step into a full elevator that is loaded beyond capacity and looks like to could go down sooner than it shoud?
We often talk about management competency but I think we also need to think about our capacity.
How much more can we hold? How much more can we take […]
Hank Marquis quoted a recent study that said “97% of IT workers say their job is stressful on a daily basis.” Hank shares:
“It seems the reasons for this stress come directly from a lack of leadership from IT managers. Effective leaders build a trusted team and then follow the team’s advice. Many IT managers lack […]
Here are this week’s Management Zingers
These are 5 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.
Getting Passionate About Responsibility for Passion by Steve Roesler looks at passion in management. He […]
Chris Bailey recently pointed out that Slacker Manager is part of the Alltop.com Career Network, along with The M.A.P. Maker, Escape from Cubicle Nation, Evil HR Lady, Managing with Aloha Coaching and the Chief Happiness Officer, to name a few.
I’d encourage you to bookmark the Alltop.com Career Network, and see if you find anything useful […]
How have you learned to become a leader or a manager?
We can read management blogs, we can digest leadership books, we can take leadership courses, we can enroll in a Master’s of Business Administration, we can listen to a leadership speaker…
Yet sometimes our most significant learning comes from the strangest places.
Originally I had created some […]
My friend Wendy Terwelp alerted me to a very interesting article about bathroom poaching, a term I’d never heard before, to describe stealing recruiting employees using very aggressive tactics, including advertising in the employee bathroom (see, you get the term now, bathroom poaching. I got it now too!)
The article makes mention of recruiters swarming Yahoo […]
What is your metaphor for being a manager?
Metaphors help us understand our work and also help us to be playful with what we do. Do you have a metaphor for yourself?
For example: Being a manager is like being a floor tile. You provide support, you need to fit in, and if you don’t watch out […]
Please take a few moments to answer the question or questions that fits your situation:
If you’re a manager, why did you select management?
If you’re not manager, why have you not managed before?
If you’re a management consultant, why do you do what you do?
If you’re just reading Slacker Manager, why do you read our blog?
If there […]
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