Awesome Reading Recommendations

I've been away for the last two weeks, both for work and leisure. When I returned I had over 300 articles waiting for me in my RSS reader. I managed to process them all, and here are my top recommendations, arranged by themes:

On Staffing:

1. Interviewing Doesn’t Work
2. The Job Mismatch Problem - The Five Costs of the Wrong Employee In The Wrong Seat
3. Interview questions for a Team Leader

On Thinking:

1. Executive Behaviors, Your Boss Has No Clothes and Revolution from the Bottom
2. Risk, Bravado and Their Consequences
3. Change Your Thinking To Change Your Results!
4. Being Strategic: The Antidote to Fear

On Collaboration:

1. 8 Suggestions to Improve Your Team’s Problem Solving Skills
2. 12 Ways To Listen
3. The Ten Cultural Elements Of Collaboration In [Communities]
4. Collective Intelligence (video)
5. Toe Stepping Up The Corporate Ladder (a satire!)

On creativity and innovation:

1. What is the True Value of Creativity to Organizations?
2. Cultivate A Culture of Creativity
3. The How of Innovation
4. Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators
5. Prospect theory, risk and innovation

On Leadership:

1. Leadership and the Art of Apology
2. How Do You Spot an Emerging Leader?
3. Leading By Example & Mistaken Beliefs
4. Leveraging Your Strengths
5. Learning from Mistakes Takes the Right Feedback
6. Everybody Knows About Your Weaknesses – Do You?
7. Don’t Gamble On Your Performance Review
8. Three Important Questions
9. Stop Making Excuses
10. Exert Ownership in Your Workplace
11. The Circle of Care
12. 8 Steps for Acting on Inspiration
13. Culture and Engagement
14. Rejecting the Default Culture
15. Trauma Free Renewal
16. 3 Paths to Development
17. Authority, Leadership, and Truth
18. Generals Win Battles but Sergeants Win Wars
19. What Leaders Must Do Next

Miscellaneous:

1. Your Firm’s Values Have No Teeth
2. Going Beyond MBA Oaths
3. Battling it Out During Tough Times: MBAs vs. Entrepreneurs
4. Is it Time to Sell My Management Books?
5. 5 Reasons You Keep Getting Stuck

And my favourite quote of the week:

"If you perform at your personal best, doing everything possible to make a success of the immediate situation, then doing it as a ‘leader’ or a ‘follower’ has no meaning." (Miki Saxon)