Jack Hayhow shared 2 quotes from management guru Peter Drucker on management made simple that started my management brain thinking:
Make sure your people are doing work they find meaningful and satisfying.
Do everything you can to help your people make progress.
I read these and I thought to myself, “Thanks for sharing these Jack. Now HOW do […]
I got some good feedback about my last Sunday Link Love, so I thought I’d do another one for you this week. Thanks to TexasEx94, Armin, and Miki for your encouragement on last week’s post.
Lisa Haneberg created How to Hire a Manager. If you’re looking to hire a manager because you’re getting promoted? According to […]
Books…Books…Books: Read Your Way to Better Managing.
by David Zinger
Read the following disconcerting snippet from Ryan Wall’s blog, RyanWallPaper:
A study done a few years back (American Booksellers Association) revealed that the average business person with 6 or more direct reports above the age 40 reads .7 business books every 5 years!
YIKES!
Please tell me you are above […]
Your manager just walked into your office and said:
“Today’s your lucky day. You have $1000 to spend on your team, however you want to. Come back to me by lunch time with your list of items and we’ll buy whatever’s on the list, as long as it doesn’t exceed $1000 total.”
What would you buy?
A good […]
Sliding into engaging connections.
by David Zinger
We seem to be in a constant search for the defintion of employee engagement. It is like what one judge said about ponography, you know it when you see it but it is difficult to define.
To me, employee engagement is connection. View this 16 slide presentation on the key […]
Guest post from Barry J. Moltz
I know a lot about management mishaps. After working for IBM for 10 years and then running three businesses of my own over the past 15 years, I have had my fair share of train wrecks both as a manager and employee. At IBM, they trained me as a classical […]
Nothing up your sleeve except extra golf balls.
by David Zinger
Here are 10 management questions based on popular clichés:
Can you think outside of the box if you work in a shoe store?
If you have 20 cents do you have a real paradigm shift?
If you work for NASA can you really say it’s not rocket science?
If you […]
Lisa Haneberg recently shared a brilliant list of 5 simple reasons managers fail. #1 came as no surprise to me.
Fail to build positive and trusting relationships.
So simple, yet often completely missed by many managers. Management is a team sport folks, and if you don’t like it, you shouldn’t be a manager.
If you get that point, […]
I typically don’t post anything on Sunday’s because most people don’t read Slacker Manager on Sundays, but today I thought I’d mix it up a bit and see what happens. I’m calling this Sunday Link Love, and I’ll give it a try the next few weeks to see if it’s worth doing. Like any good […]
5 Zingers - Know Can Do: Put Your Know-How Into Action.
by David Zinger
Know Can Do!was written by Ken Blanchard, Paul J. Meyer, and Dick Ruhe. The book answers the question why don’t we do what we know we can and should do?
Because of information overload we don’t put our know-how into action.
Let me repeat this: […]
Wondering why your praise isn’t getting results? Take this quick quiz.
Quick quiz:
Does your feedback sound like this:
You’re doing a great job Joe! Keep it up!
Or this:
Thanks for working an extra hour the last 3 nights to finish up that tough project. Now that it’s out on time, our customers will be 31% more efficient, which […]
If management was a sport what sport would it be?
by David Zinger
Do you ever compare management or the workplace to a sport?
Management is like rugby. My son and daughter play rugby. This is not as popular a sport in Canada as hockey, football, or soccer. I thought rugby had a lot in common with management and work. […]
After 4 and a half years of nearly zero turnover on the team I manage, only 4 associates out of the 7 I started the year with are still working for me, with 1 leaving in 6 weeks and 1 splitting her time between my team and another team. Some managers I’ve talked to […]
Jef Staes wrote, My Organisation is a Jungle.
Jef outlines red monkey innovation management.
In a future post I will review the book but for now, here are some tidb its Jef sent to me about the Red Monkey:
A Red Monkey is an idea, not a person
A Red Monkey is most of the time born out of a conversation (open […]
The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports Apple’s newest way of hiring great employees is by poaching them from other companies. A business card Apple’s recruiters give out says simply:
You’re amazing. We should talk.
That’d get me to at least make a phone call to set up a lunch meeting to learn more about the opportunity.
I’m thinking […]
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