Summer's Top 150: Last Installment

It's the last day of summer already, and there you have it: the 150+ blog posts, articles, presentations, podcasts and videos I've come across over the last 3 months. Here's the final installment:

1. If there's a single link from this Summer's Top 150 you need to check out, this is the one: a great slide show on company culture, and very relevant to the public service.
2. Forget excellence - Be outstanding!
3. Realigning Your Role
4. Owning Your Career
5. Behavior never lies
6. Execute or die
7. Maybe (New Michael Jordan Commercial) - I just like the implication for employees :-)
8. The New Employee Retention Crisis: Retaining Low Performers
9. What are you thinking about
10. Employee Engagement: You Are Not the Boss of Me.
11. Multitasking, marijuana, managing?
12. When weak management pushes top performers out the door
13. Behaving badly
14. Facebook Friending Policy
15. 5 Ways HR Can Poise a Firm for Growth?
16. It takes two baby!

Summer's Top 150: Miscellaneous

A bit of everything today...

Henry Mintzberg, my all-time favourite management author, released his new book "Managing" this summer, and it's starting to get some attention. See here, here and here - or this video interview.

HR

1. Why new hires fail - here are the causes
2. Do not conduct Exit Interviews
3. How to Fix Succession Planning

Technology

1. Did You Know 4.0 (Fall 200
2. A No Bulls*#% Manager's Guide to Internet Use at Work
3. 9 Hidden Benefits of Blogging

Resource

1. Steve Cunningham has a neat website where he summarizes in a short video the key points of the management books he reads. Here's one I liked.
2. Self-Coaching Guides: Communication, Leadership, Motivation
3. 10 Free Leadership Video Sites

Funny!

1. Idea Killer B.I.N.G.O.
2. Idiots from Corporate II
3. The worst part of work
4. Does Facebook Flunk Your Performance Review?
5. Manager Achieves Full Mastery Of Pointless Managerial Jargon
6. Staff strip naked to improve morale
7. Employee Engagement Humor Video: Belgium versus Japanese Office
8. The Words You Wear

Summer's Top 150: Personal Development

It's not just up to our bosses and supervisors to change; we too have something to learn and improve:

1. A Tendency to Blame and an Inability to Confront
2. Stopping a victim mentality (taking responsibility for your life)
3. Two Steps to Simplify Your Workday
4. Want a Great Primer in Leadership? Work for a Bastard and Take Notes
5. 3-3 quick tips for Listening Skills
6. Respectfully Speaking, Your Respect for Others Will Serve You Well
7. Criticism - Much Ado About “Nothing”
8. Screw Your Career Path. Live Your Story
9. What Stories Are in Your Bedrock?
10. Monday LeaderTip: How to Stop Coasting
11. My 10 Favorite Leadership Lessons
12. 11 Steps To Being A Better Leader
13. 100 Ways to Be a Better Leader
14. What is your Signature difference?
15. Defining your job
16. 12 Keys to Greater Self-Awareness
17. Overcome the 3 Reasons Leaders Fail To Reflect On The Past
18. How To Be Coachable
19. Making Amends
20. So you think you can lead?
21. Intelligent, But Not Wise
22. How to Coax Feedback out of a Reluctant Manager
23. To Multitask Effectively, Focus on Value, Not Volume
24. Our Responses to Online Content Match Our Responses to Collaboration
25. The Three Sins of Teamwork at School
26. Better Meetings: Decide How To Decide
27. How to Make Knowledge Work Fun
28. Two Voices on: The Words of a Leader
29. Trumpets
30. Re-Visioning Visionary Leaders
31. What Is A Leadee?
32. 7 Signs of Creative Professional Learning Communities
33. Questions of Accountability for Professional Learning Communities
34. Professional Learning Communities Overcome Collaboration Barriers Through Unifying Goals
35. How Groups Form, Conform, Then Warp Our Decision-Making, Productivity and Creativity
36. 10 Rules That Govern Groups
37. Why Group Norms Kill Creativity
38. Overcoming the “Hoarding” Barrier in Professional Learning Communities
39. 11 Traits of Highly Creative Students
40. 20 Ways to Get Mentally Tough
41. 9 Ways to Beat Negativity
42. Feed the Positive Dog
43. Strengths and Purpose
44. 20 Great Coaching Questions that can Catalyze Breakthroughs
45. How Are You Defying "Best Practice"?

Summer's Top 150: Supervision & Performance Management

I know, I know. This "dump post" includes way too many articles. But the topic is soooo important!

1. Three Questions for Potential Managers to Ask Themselves
2. New Managers: Alone and Out of Their Depths
3. Middle Managers: The Meat in the Sandwich
4. Caring for Your People: Part of the Boss's Job
5. The Penny Challenge
6. How to Have More Productive Performance Appraisals
7. The Dreaded Performance Review
8. Straight Talk in a Slump
9. What Leaders Can Learn from a Doctor About How to Deliver Bad News
10. 7 Mistakes Bosses Make When Giving Criticism
11. Ask Three Questions to Clarify Expectations
12. Managers Who Coach Ask Questions That Enlighten
13. Managers Who Coach: Overcome Dependency
14. Develop Outstanding Employees Utilizing Effective Feedback
15. Better Mentoring
16. Adding a few points to Seth on leadership
17. How To Inaugurate Effectiveness In Your Project Team
18. If You Want Accountability, You Must Grant Authority
19. It’s Not About FINDING Talent. It’s about IDENTIFYING and TAPPING What You Already Have
20. Promotions and job fit
21. What Alienates Top Performers
22. Rewarded Employees Work Harder
23. The Art of Giving Praise
24. Leading Clever People
25. Nine Ways to Identify Natural Leaders
26. How to Identify Your Employees' Hidden Talents
27. Empowering Leaders: Hand Over Your Keys
28. Handling Quit-and-Stays
29. Problem children: Dealing with whiney, crybaby malcontents in your ranks
30. Management Interview Questions and Answers
31. What makes a good boss?
32. Stop Demotivating Me!
33. Leadership: Intentional Influence
34. Does Your Do Match Your Tell?
35. How to Handle the Pessimist on Your Team
    

Summer's Top 150: Employee Engagement

Third installment of the summer's Top 150:

1. I'm On A Mission to Ban Motivation Programs - Join the Movement
2. Happiness at work at Zappos
3. Engaging for Success: The MacLeod Review
4. High Commitment, High Performance Management
5. Labor Daze
6. Workplace Relations – Building Trust at Workplace
7. How Employee Engagement Turned Around Campbell's
8. Four Simple Ways to Make Your Employees Happier
9. The Secret Responsibilities of a Leader
10. 22 Ways Employees Benefit From Their Own Engagement
11. Who is Responsible for Employee Engagement?

Summer's Top 150: Change Management

For this second "dump post" of the week, I present you my favourite resources of the summer on change management:

1. Results, Relationships, Leadership and the Brain
2. Why we only listen to what we want to hear
3. 7 Reasons Leaders Fail
4. Bad Leader! Stifling Dissent
5. How to Speak to an Unruly Crowd
6. On Change: Inclination, Motivation, Action
7. So you want to be a Change Agent?
8. The Hazards of Leading Culture Change
9. Don't Give Up on Change
10. In Praise of Non-conformity
11. How leaders embed and transmit culture
12. It's All About Trust
13. Leading Self With Character: Courage
14. Why Should Anyone Be Led By You
15. 5 Positive Leadership Strategies
16. I'll Change If You Tell Me What You Really Want

Summer's Top 150: Management Thought

It has been nearly two months since I have posted anything on my blog, and exactly three months since I have shared any article recommendation.

I'm going to make up for the lost time by doing a 6-part blitz of the 150 best articles / blog posts / podcasts / videos that I have come across over the summer. So brace yourself!!!

1. Gary Hamel's “moonshots for management”, part 1, 2, and 3
2. Essential Reading for Management Revolutionaries
3. More Must-Reads for Management Revolutionaries
4. Management MUST Be Reinvented
5. Just Managing
6. The Elitist Undertones of Leadership
7. Leadership Is Responsibility, Not Power
8. Rethinking the MBA
9. Managers Not MBAs: Debating the Merits of Business Education
10. Searching for balance (Interview with Henry Mintzberg)
11. Long time blogger Carmine Coyote retires from blogging