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Slacker Manager Listed as Top Management/Leadership Blog: Management Lesson Inside

by Phil Gerbyshak on June 11th, 2008

According to the editors of HRWorld.com, Slacker Manager is one of the top management and leadership blogs. I am very flattered to count this blog among the great ones, and I do think David and I do a very good job of offering a unique look at management, leadership, and productivity. Our inclusion is listed as this: “With pictures, funny lists and useful tips, this slacker blog works hard to keep you interested.” Thanks!

What concerns me about this list is that the editors of HRWorld.com didn’t do nearly enough homework on the blogs they listed, and listed some blogs that aren’t active any longer and other blogs that aren’t blogs. If I were to guess, someone plugged in the terms leadership and management into a search engine and they posted what they found.

For instance #37 is my partner at Slacker Manager, David Zinger. David writes a GREAT blog on employee engagement at http://davidzinger.com Unfortunately the link they listed points to http://zingeronleadership.blogspot.com which has been dormant since October of 2007. In fact, the last post on David’s old site points folks directly to the new home.

Another example: October 2007’s Golden Slacker winner, Rosa Say, is listed at #9 with Say Leadership Coaching, the front page of her leadership company. A better choice might have been Managing with Aloha, the companion site for her book of the same name, or better still, Talking Story, where Rosa and others “talk story” about leadership, learning and much more.

There are probably more that aren’t correct, and to be honest, I’m a little disappointed. Some well meaning editors took the time to compile this list, send me a link congratulating me on my inclusion, and then they only did a halfway job on the list. What could have been a big honor seems only half as great as it could be.

On the brighter side, many of the blogs they list are new to me, so I’ll have plenty of new folks to learn from. I encourage you to check out the complete list of all the top 100 leadership and management blogs and see for yourself which blogs are worthwhile and which ones are worthless.

Here’s the management lesson: If you’re going to give someone an honor, make it an honor worth their time to accept. If you compare your existing associates with associates that are no longer in your firm or no longer in that position, don’t be surprised if they aren’t as happy as you expected them to be with the honor.

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