A Bit of Everything

Here's a list of the best blog posts, articles, videos and other resources I came across this week. There's some really good stuff in there, so take the time to go over each of them:

1. Moon Shots for Management: Management 2.0
2. On Becoming a Manager
3. The lost art of supervision
4. Rewarding OverPerformers with UnderPerformers’ Work - An Employee Engagement Buster
5. Talking to team members about performance
6. Management’s Achilles Heel
7. Top ten reasons managers become assholes
8. Leaders Need to Challenge Assumptions
9. The Courage To Think Differently
10. 10 Strategies for Building Leadership Optimism
11. Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning
12. Alternatives to Hating HR
13. Improving Communication
14. 12 Ways To Have "Beautiful" Team Meetings
15. 2 Methods That Help Procrastinators Succeed
16. We Need to Make More "Jobs"
17. How To Fix Business Schools - The HBR Debate: Round 2
18. Essential Education: Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" (alternatively, you can look up Clay Shirky's "Institutions vs. collaboration" presentation at TED)

Also, my friend Asif has put together a video in which he explains a phenomenon bloggers like me are all too familiar with - lurking - and offers some interesting insight.