Misc. Blog Posts, Part 2: More on Management

As you know, this is probably my favourite topic, so I have more blog posts recommendations than usual. Don't panic, it's still early in the week, so you'll have time to read them all by Friday ;-)

1. He who thinks acts
2. Insultants Wanted
3. Are you making room for Mavericks?
4. What It Takes to be a Genuine Leader
5. The Movie!
6. The 6 causes of disengagement
7. The Great Disconnect
8. Leader's Capacity to Sustain Change
9. Make believe world
10. Three Things You (Probably) Won't Learn in Business School
11. When to Change for Change's Sake
12. Beckhard’s Change Equation
13. Fear brings loathing, not harder work
14. You Just May Be a Poor Boss If...
15. Put Away Your Blackberry
16. 10 Rules From The Incompetent Educational Leader's Handbook
17. Meetings: Where You Sit, How You Act, and What People Think Of You
18. Why Centralizing Power May Be Exactly What They Need
19. A Male Engineer's Perspective on Women in Male-Dominated Fields
20. Leadership and the Sexes (video)
21. Documenting Performance Measure Drivers
22. The Seven Fatal Flaws of Performance Measurement
23. The Mis-Misinterpretations of PMBOK
24. A Simple Way to Put PMBOK to Work
25. It’s Time to Make Management a True Profession

Misc. Blog Posts, Part 1: Management Thought Evolution

This week I give you the final blitz of blog posts recommendations. This collection of articles may seem a bit disjointed, but I have managed to group most of them by topics. So here were go with the first: management thought evolution.

1. Is Your Company Designed for Humans?
2. Management for management’s sake
3. Stiff necks and fixed ideas
4. That Seismic Shift You Are About To Hear is Management Revolution
5. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
6. Work, Work Everywhere, But Not a Drop of Understanding
7. Another Irrational Myth of Management?
8. The 10 Most Enduring Ideas
9. Seven Day Weekend (video)
10. Workplace democracy
11. Conventional Leadership vs. Lateral Leadership
12. Disruptive Idea: The Education Organization Is Not Structure But Capability
13. Management Quotes Presentation

Living Renewal: Powerpoint Available on GCPEDIA

Quite a few people have been asking for the Powerpoint of last week's presentation at the CSPS Armchair Discussion. It is now available on my GCPEDIA page.

Bottom-Up Change: Comments and Feedback

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Bottom-Up Change: Video Rebroadcast

If you couldn't attend the original session taped on December 11, 2008, you will be happy to know that CSPS is rebroadcasting "Bottom-Up Change: It Starts With An Individual" on March 26, 2009, in both French and English.

Go to the CSPS Armchair Discussions website to register!

Living Renewal: Comments and Feeback

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The Manager’ Series, Part 6: Miscellaneous Advice

Last post of this series on management!

1. Measuring Management
2. 5 Facts Leadership Gurus Don’t Tell
3. Don't Let Yourself Be Surprised
4. Learning to Act Like a Leader
5. A Boss Who Changed My Life
6. Ten Commandments of Management
7. Seven critical questions to assess your leadership
8. Leader as social architect
9. Engagement - Rarer now. Needed more now.
10. What’s Your High Performance Team Experience?
11. How good are you at making decisions in uncertain conditions?
12. Questions for Leaders at the end of the First Quarter
13. Decision Traps: Barriers to Better Decision Making
14. Staying with no
15. Management’s False Darwinians
16. Why Don't Managers Think Deeply?
17. Put the "You Factor" to Work
18. The Three Rules Every Manager Forgets
19. Why You Need to Be a Happier Manager

Not quite blogs, but worth the read:

1. The psychology of human misjudgement
2. Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership
3. Vital Smarts Videos (funny!)

Management, Part 5: Management Philosophy

1. The importance of philosophy to great leadership
2. What beliefs support your leadership philosophy?
3. Does "Management" Mean "Command and Control"?
4. 20th Century managers inhibit 21st Century work
5. 25 Stretch Goals for Management
6. Miles’ Law and Six Other Maxims of Management
7. Twas Ever Thus
8. Measurement Versus Trust
9. How is Your Leadership Changing?
10. How practicing leaders can manage paradox, dilemma and polarity
11. The Army’s Leadership Framework and Philosophy

Management, Part 4: Traps, Pitfalls and Things to Avoid

Today we flirt with the "dark" side:

1. The Challenge of Becoming a Better Manager
2. What is Reflective Leadership?
3. Can leaders walk on water?
4. 7 Ways Leaders Handicap Themselves
5. Growth: Moving to the Next Level
6. Our Strengths Are Not to Be Indulged, But Managed
7. 10 Lessons For Self-Leadership
8. The Specialist
9. The Generalist
10. Help Wanted: Great Leader. No Technical Experience Needed?
11. Why good managers make bad decisions
12. Why good managers make bad decisions (another take)
13. On Apologies and Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders
14. The single most costly and common error a manager can make?
15. Twenty indicators of failing at leadership
16. Leadership’s New Rules
17. 10 signs of an unsafe leader
18. Can YOU answer WHY…!
19. These are tough times for managers - Time to tune up!
20. 10 Leadership mistakes that we’ve all made
21. Focus on Relationships
22. How do you feel about your boss?
23. The Three Traits of a "Me First" Manager
24. 11 Habits of the Worst Boss I Ever Had
25. Learn From Your Mistakes

Management, Part 3: Succession Planning

Looking ahead:

1. Bosses Make The Difference
2. How to Spot the Future Leaders of Your Business
3. Looking for Tomorrow’s Leaders
4. Spotting a New Leader
5. How to “Score” Leadership Potential When Using the Performance and Potential Matrix
6. Nine Leadership Development Strategies for a Performance and Potential Matrix
7. Hiring the Right Skill Set and Motivating the Millennials
8. Two models for coaching your direct reports
9. Culture is the shadow of the leader
10. Shooting Stars
11. Give a Gift: 4 Tips for More Effective Mentoring
12. Memo to a Young Leader: What Kind of Boss Are You?
13. New Manager Guide: Big Picture Focus

Since I am calling on you to think about the future, please watch this short TED presentation. You'll be drooling with envy at the idea of one day using this cool gadget...

Management, Part 2: Managing Performance

More on managing performance:

1. Put Down that Carrot and that Stick and that Hot Dog
2. We Don’t Work for Companies; We Work for Managers
3. How to Manage People in 15 Minutes a Day
4. How to Have an Effective 1 on 1
5. Coaching Self-Assessment for Leaders
6. Improving Communication
7. Do Your Employees Truly Believe That They Can Make A Difference?
8. Supportive Confrontation
9. Challenged!
10. The Right Way to Disagree with Direct Reports
11. How Good Leaders Correct Mistakes
12. The leadership cop-out, the employee hot potato
13. Real Leaders Fire Underperformers
14. Motivation Disconnect: How Organizations Fail to Motivate Managers
15. Truth as a Tool
16. Put Positivism to Work
17. 5 Ways to Have Your Conflict at Senior Team Meetings
18. Find the Creativity Hiding in Your Office
19. Increase Motivation
20. Personal Leadership Practices Survey

Management, Part 1: Advice for New and Future Managers

Does Blogging About Leadership & HR Help? I hope so.

Last week David Eaves had a post entitled "Why the government of canada needs bloggers" in which he stated that "[blogs] sift through the information that is out there and tease out what is important and what is relevant and write it up in a readable and accessible fashion."

In the same vein, I have sifted through thousands of blog postings to bring you in this six-part series what I think are the 100 very best on the topic of management. So let's begin with some advice for new and future managers:

1. Why Do You Want to Manage?
2. 7 Myths about Management
3. The Boss Trap
4. I'm a manager, get me out of here
5. Three quarters of new managers lack skills to do their job
6. Leadership Disconnect = Career Failure
7. Lessons from the school of hard knocks
8. Why new managers encounter trouble
9. The New Boss: How to Survive the First 100 Days
10. New Manager: Where Do You Start?
11. 10 Reasons Why Middle Managers Are Important
12. New Manager Success Key: Ongoing Training
13. A Practical Guide for Developing Leaders
14. Helping New Managers Succeed
15. How To Help New Executives Succeed
16. New Managers: Get Your Boss’s Support
17. The Top Ten Challenges of the New Leader