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