This is a guest post from Ade McCormack
How many IT people do you see holding court at parties? How many of us hope to be seated next to a technical architect on our next flight?
Introduce yourself as an IT person at a party (I know, I’ve done this) and they all start telling stories […]
Can you “tell” time?
by David Zinger
What is your relationships to time at work. Clock in below.
Click here or click on the clocks below to take 5 seconds of your time and select a response that best fits your relationship with time at work.
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This is a guest-post from Stephen Smith, who is the editor of Productivity in Context, a resource for articles on Productivity and Leadership, New Media Studies, and tools for organizing. Click here to read more about improving your life and work through increased mindfulness, education, and workflow practices.
If you’re going to be a Slacker Manager, […]
May’s Golden Slacker: Leo Babauta
Inducted by David Zinger
I am delighted to induct Mr. Leo Babauta of Zen Habits as the May inductee in the Order of the Golden Slacker.
It is an honor to induct Leo Babauta into the Order of the Golden Slacker. Leo’s primary focus is on productivity and his perspective, suggestions, and articles on […]
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Question: Do you believe this works for managers, or do you think it’s better to treat your team as they are right now?
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Whack Revisited
by David Zinger
It is only fitting that we have a whacky Management Zinger for our 13th entry into this feature.
Guy Kawasaki had an interview with Roger von Oech about creativity based on the 25th anniversary of Roger’s quintessential classic creativity book: Whack on the Side of the Head. I have used this book off an […]
Water cooler gossip can kill any work environment. Being a manager, I have found that often times this gossip is hurtful and even hateful.So what can you do to combat this axis of office evil? Simply join in yourself.
There is simply no way to get a better finger on the pulse than by […]
Here are the results of an employee engagement poll I conducted on Slacker Manager. From total infatuation to total irritation, 56% of 493 respondents held strong positive views about their work. Scan the statistics and ensure that you read the verbatim comments from each of the 7 categories.
by David Zinger
The poll is in. 493 of you responded! […]
Over at Leadership Turn, Miki Saxon is nearly completed with a great series going on about whether Warren Bennis’ 13 differences between leaders and managers still hold in light of today’s modern workforce. Bennis is thought of as a pioneer in the field of leadership studies, much as Peter Drucker is considered the father of […]
Quick Zinger: Are you a Hamster?
by David Zinger
A recent large scale employee engagement survey categorized some workers as hamsters: “those working hard but at the wrong things.” What do you think? Should we refer to a group of employees as hamsters? You make the call.
Contribute 3 seconds to this research by clicking the button below and voting […]
Lost luggage by David Zinger
As I write this, I am sitting in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan airport waiting to catch a flight to Winnipeg, Manitoba. I am heading home. When I left home 3 days ago I forgot to pack two items that I needed for the trip (shoes can always come in handy).
This made me […]
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” - Paul Hawken
I don’t know if I agree or disagree with this quote, but it does make me think a bit more about my management style.
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There are 336 responses so far. Have you clicked in? (Ending May 6th)
Click on the buttom below to complete a one question work survey, it will take 7 seconds.
Let me know how you are doing from total infatuation to total irritation. If you are really keen or really ticked off you can let me know why you chose your […]
Slide Into Your Career
by David Zinger
Do you need some career perspective. Click your way though this slide show of Garr Reynold’s presenting on Daniel Pink’s Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. This is a great tandem bringing together some fresh perspective on career:
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Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson was fired as coach of the Mavericks after winning 118 games in 3 years as head coach, the second highest for any coach in NBA history in a 3 year span. He took his team to the NBA Finals. He was named coach of the year. One of his […]
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