Here are the selection of winning posts from last week.
Get your pictures moving. Ed Brenegar hit a grand slam for me last week. He loaded the bases with a link and recommendation to Animoto. This is a wonderful and easy site to take your photos and create a video with music in a matter of minutes.
Let’s talk. […]
Phil and I are determined to honor people who have made outstanding contributions to management.
Instead of a quick link and a list in a blogroll we have created: The Order of the Golden Slacker. We will send the inductee a certificate to acknowledge them and we will write a longer post here to honor them.
If […]
Don’t get me wrong, I love fun at work I just resent when someone says we must have FUN at work. This is when I feel like one of Michael Scott’s (NBC television show The Office) employees who are coerced into engaging in FUNtivities.
My Master’s thesis was on humor in counseling. Humor and playfulness are my top signature […]
Looking for some easy, common sense tips on how to be a better slacker manager? Look no further than this Manager’s Cheat Sheet of 101 Common Sense Rules for Leaders.
Some of my favorite tips from the list:
8. Always smile. Smiles are contagious and will make others feel positive when you’re around.
19. Make sure expectations are […]
Do you speak management?
Perhaps you have been at a meeting where someone says, “growth share matrix is in decline because we are at the low end of the innovation adoption curve and we need to enhance instrinsic stakeholder commitment.” This is the kind of statement that makes you look up from the solitaire game on […]
How do the people you manage feel about you? Do they love you or leave you?
How do you feel about the person who manages you? After another unproductive meeting do you curse your fate and feel hate for your manager?
Bruce L. Katcher along with Adam Snyder have written 30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What […]
“I have observed that most people put too much emphasis on decision making and too little on decision managing. As a result, they lack focus, discipline, intentionality, and purpose”
~John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader
Before you can begin to manage others you must become disciplined in managing yourself. “Leading by example” is an old piece […]
I’ve worked with an equal number of commercial and non-profit organizations over the years and one of the most interesting people-types I’ve encountered is the new non-profit volunteer. Overflowing with energy and motivation, willing to take on any task, they jump right in on whatever you ask and plow right through it. These […]
Dov Seidman’s book, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything, has some of the best information for organizational leaders in the new Web 2.0 economy. Like the The Cluetrain Manifesto before it, How describes the evolution of the business world from the hierarchical methods of the Industrial Revolution to the interconnected methods of the […]
When was the last time you tried out?
What did you try out for? Did you make the cut?
As the father of 3 sports-playing-teenagers who have experienced a wide range of tryouts I thought I would tryout for Slacker Manager. I feel like I am in a hockey rink about to show my backward skating as […]
Via 2million I ran into this campaign for a 5 day weekend. Two good days of work and five days off. I think this is a cause I can believe in!
Looks like most of their rallies (The Work Less Express) are taking place on the east coast because the movement started in Asheville, NC. I’ve […]
Laurence Haughton, author of one of my favorite books, “It’s Not What You Say…It’s What You Do” and also the bestseller “It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow“, has an new (free) web seminar coming up over at Microsoft Office Live.
The seminar is on May 29th, from 9am […]
Wow. This is a really good book. This is a book that I got from the publisher–I get offered books on a regular basis and I turn down about as many as I accept. I was a little skeptical and almost didn’t accept this one. The marketing materials pitched the book as the logical successor […]
My friend Lisa Haneberg has a new book out (haven’t read it yet, but look for the review soon). To help promote the book she’s riding her motorcycle, Purple Haze, across the country and back. What a great trip that’ll be! You can check out her tour dates here. Lisa also made this neat […]
I’m generally a proponent of the “hire slow, fire fast” school of thought. It can be extremely painful to hire slow, but typically not quite as painful as the destruction a bad hire can wreak on a company or team. I recently read Dick Costolo’s (of Feedburner) post on hiring fast vs. slow and I […]
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