ContrarianThinking.ca makes the Top 150 Management & Leadership Blogs

My blog is listed on Noop's Top 150 Management & Leadership Blogs and takes spot # 115. "The ordered list was created using statistics from Google PageRank, Bing, Alexa, Technorati, Twitter Grader, PostRank and FeedBurner." Not bad given that I have pretty much been inactive on my blog since last summer!

It is quite an honour since many of my favorite management and leadership blogs are also on the list, like Management Excellence, Leadership at Work, Marshall Goldsmith, Get Me Jamie Notter, and of course Managing Leadership.

That being said, don't expect any new post from me before the completion of my mini-retirement! ;-)

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!