Instead of doing something traditional to improve your management today, do something FUN! Make your own demotivational poster and share it with your team or your other managers. You could even order a high resolution picture from the folks at Despair.
Need some inspiration to create your poster? Check out this Demotivators lens someone […]
Strength impoverishment in our workplaces.
by David Zinger
Assessing the poverty of strengths in the workplace. Here are the results from my latest management strength survey.
55% of people have had no strength training
18% of participants spent less than 1/5 of their day using their strengths
only 9% of participants spent over 4/5ths of their day using their strengths.
28% of respondents […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are you in the management sin bin? by David Zinger
Do you work with win/win or the 7 deadly sins?
Pride - thinking you know it all, can do it all, as you raise your chin and ride with pride up the office elevator to your job as the assistant to the assistant manager of office copy supplies.
Envy - coveting your co-workers corner […]
Guest article by Sandy Renshaw
As a new business owner, I find myself doing more than a few pro bono projects for worthy causes and discounted projects for organizations to which I belong.
These projects are making a big dent in the time spent on my regular client work. In my quest to find balance, I […]
Info, info, info, info, info, info, info, info….everywhere but not a drop to think?
Are you bobbing, almost drowning, in a sea of information?
Take this article, why are you reading it? Don’t go away just yet, I have my own simple answer at the end.
We have reached the point where the productivity experts are just adding to […]
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 […]
I am getting worried about myself. I think pixie dust from Tom Peter’s NONSTOP RANTING is rubbing off on me. Today, I am ticked off at competent managers and managerial competencies.
Competencies and list of competencies are an incredible anemic pathway to robust management practice and development.
You know what I am talking about: Those competency tables […]
Guest article by Kevin Eikenberry, author of Remarkable Leadership
My kids were both involved in school programs called DEAR – Drop Everything and Read. The idea was to carve out a time in the day as reading time. I love the idea, the goal, and reading. As much as I believe we grow and […]
This is a guest article from Ted Demopoulos
We all get email, too much email. Remember when getting an email was exciting? Well, oceanfront property used to be cheap too.
Remember the AOL “You’ve Got Mail” voice announcement, as though it was a noteworthy event?
Email, big virtual piles of it, may be the norm today, but you […]
This is a guest post from Erika Andersen, author of the wonderful book Growing Great Employees (now in paperback!) and The Simplest Thing blog.
In honor of Phil, David and this delightful blog, I’d like to invite everyone reading this to spend some time this year learning to be a Productive Slacker.
Wait, isn’t that an oxymoron?
I […]
This is a guest post from Dr. Susan L. Reid. Susan will be answering questions on Slacker Manager today, so please leave her a comment and she’ll answer any questions you might have. Have fun!
There’s something in the air. Can’t you just feel it? It’s the anticipation of 2008 being the greatest year ever.
For some […]
We are now into our second week in 2008. Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Are you still on track with them or do they seem as far away as Resolute Bay, one of Canada’s northernmost communities and one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of minus 16.4°C?
Click […]
A few years back, the previous writer at Slacker Manager took on a new job, and shared a really cool tool: a single page, strategic agenda for the first 100 days on the job. You can read Bren’s original First 100 Days article. If memory serves, that was one of the first articles I read […]
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