Blog Post and Article Recommendations

1. 22 Awful Employee Engagement Mistakes
2. How To Motivate Employees - Newsflash: It’s Not a Manager’s Job
3. Head’s Up – You’re About to be Promoted or Fired
4. Want to know why professors don't teach?
5. A Bridge to Nowhere…
6. HR – Not Dead Yet
7. Unseen Bias and Discrimination Exists? - Even in HR
8. Culture? Ask A Worm
9. Five Barriers to Change
10. Dr. Russell Ackoff on Systems Thinking
11. The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community
12. Disruptive Ideas: The open management book about organisational transformation that can start now

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