Misc. Blog, Part 3: Career Advice

Today's selection:

1. Animal House and Supervision
2. Little fish, little pond
3. Make Your Next Performance Appraisal ROCK!
4. 6 Powerful Questions To Ask In Your Performance Review
5. How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan
6. A Guide to Cross-functional Leadership Developmental Moves
7. 10 Ways to Get Off on the Right Foot with Your New Manager
8. 7 Career Advancing Tips To build An Impeccable Relationship With Your Boss
9. 10 Vital Actions To Inspire Others And Gain Respect
10. Top Ten Tips - Getting Your Ideas Heard
11. Networks Change How People Learn--Does It Change How You Teach?
12. Top 10 Annoying Habits at Work
13. The Paradoxical Commandments
14. How to Create a Motivating Work Environment
15. Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask
16. Young, High Potential Leaders - Use Wait Time to Build Character

Career Advice, Part 6: Miscellaneous Career Advice

As the title suggests, this final installment of this series may seem a bit disjointed. Regardless, there are plenty of good bits of wisdom contained in the following posts:

1. Antidotes to envy
2. What is hard work really worth?
3. How to strangle organizational communication
4. 3 Reasons To Skip Getting Your MBA
5. Procrastination: THE Results Killer!
6. The Pitfalls of Emotional Reasoning
7. The Five Dimensions of Effective Apology
8. Leadership Scruples: What Would You Do? 20 Ethical Dilemmas for Leaders
9. Stressed at Work, Absent at Home -- And Failing at Both
10. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
11. 7 Steps to Boost Your Leadership Self-Confidence
12. Career Improvisation
13. 10 Ways to Intensify Your Managerial Results
14. Management Lessons

Career Advice, Part 5: Self-Development

Big post today, and perhaps the most important of this series on "career advice" (and once again, 23 article recommendations - like Michael Jordan's jersey number... Coïcidence?):

1. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
2. Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes?
3. The Eight Most Common Reasons Why People Fail
4. Growth: Moving to the Next Level
5. Leaders think differently…
6. Leadership Development Questions
7. Our Strengths Are Not to Be Indulged, But Managed
8. On Learning From Mistakes
9. Top Ten Daily Habits for Developing the Art of Leadership
10. Why Do Seemingly Smart People Make Such Blunders?
11. Herb Kelleher: My Best Lesson in Leadership
12. Dealing with rejection
13. Use Balance to Help Overcome Your Fears
14. Security is an Illusion
15. The one you feed
16. Five Questions That Can Save You From Messing Up
17. I Think, Therefore I Am . . . or Maybe Not
18. Searching For The Ego’s Magic Pill
19. Resilience: How to Build a Personal Strategy for Survival
20. The Secret to Coping Better With Bad Times
21. To Lead, Let Go of the Past
22. What Will You Regret?
23. Choices versus Obligations

Career Advice, Part 4: Managing the Boss

A hot topic for today:

1. Ten Things You Need to Know About Your New Boss or Leader
2. Warning Signs About Your Future Boss: A Checklist
3. An ode to the bad managers of my past
4. When Your Boss Is Out of Control
5. Neutralize Your Toxic Boss
6. Managing Your Bad Boss
7. How to manage your boss
8. Help for those who hate their boss
9. NHS Trusts Poor Management Practice
10. What to Do When Team Trust is All But Gone
11. Do You Put Up With Living in More-or-Less Comfortable Misery?

And in case you missed it: People Join Organizations, but Leave Their Managers

Career Advice, Part 3: Developing Talent

Always an exciting topic...

1. Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
2. Employee Performance and Promotion Myths
3. A Practical Guide for Developing Leaders
4. Eight Ways To Improve Employee Morale
5. Grassroots Change
6. How to Spot the Future Leaders of Your Business
7. Searching for growth leaders
8. 62 Types of Questions and Why They Work
9. Five challenges that accelerate leadership development
10. Grow as a Leader Now

Career Advice, Part 2: Out-Perform!

For this second installment, 23 links (like Michael Jordan's number! Coincidence?):

1. You Are a Superstar: 90% of Managers Are In the Top 10%
2. 5 ways to ensure you never get promoted
3. 4 Reasons Why You’re Not Getting Promoted This Year
4. Not getting promoted? These could be reasons why
5. A Brief Guide to World Domination
6. You know you are not leading when
7. The Decisions You Make Create Your Attitude
8. Leadership is a choice
9. Recognising Your Choices…
10. 6 Ways to Be More Valued by Your Organization
11. 13 Ways to Make Valuable Contributions in a Meeting
12. What Leaders Need to Do Right to Move Up
13. Job Crafting
14. Outliers: Understanding the Context of Success
15. 10000 Hours to Success
16. Talent is Never Enough
17. What it takes to be great
18. Why talent is overrated
19. The Power of Thinking Twice
20. The importance of questioning your work
21. 10 Ways to Recession Proof Your Job In A Down Economy
22. 5 Career Development Lessons From...A Baby?
23. What Leaders Can Learn From Children

Career Advice, Part 1: Selling Your Ideas

15 tips to make your case and sell your ideas:

1. Expert power
2. The evidence shows that the evidence must be visible
3. What does the evidence say about presenting evidence?
4. 9 Delusions of Management Books
5. Should you seek to be more decisive?
6. Behaviours that create or break trust
7. Does your behavior damage trust?
8. How To Influence "Up"
9. Seven ways inspiring leaders communicate
10. 10 Ways to Get Management to Listen to Your Ideas
11. Overcome Your Fear of Trying Something New
12. How to stand out in any job
13. How to recruit a small army
14. Leading Change? These 5 Obama-Approved Tactics Get Buy-In
15. And of course, scheme virtuously!