CNN commentator Jack Cafferty is highlighting one of the finest and funniest contests about leadership and management from the AFL-CIO…
FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
15 million workers in this country say they have a bad boss. A new survey also shows that 36 percent say they feel pressure to stay with said bad boss because of the [...]
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It seems odd that the best salespeople do not make the best sales managers. But that is, unfortunately, the truth.
Empirically speaking, this seems to be a function of “how” those salespeople became great. More often than not, truly great salespeople have some internal “it” that makes them great. They have trouble explaining the “it” [...]
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Here are the Top 5 on the NY Times Business Hardcover list for July 2008. To see the complete list (and to see a great choice that’s been at #15 for two months in a row) follow this link.
At number 15 again this month is the great read from Marshall Goldsmith called What Got You Here [...]
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It’s amazing how much we can learn about how not to lead from the examples provided by professional sports. The latest instance of sub-par leadership came to a head this past week by future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Lorenzo Favre and his soon to be former team, the Green Bay Packers. (For the six [...]
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The editors at AskTheManager.com scoured the World Wide Web to bring you news and views from the Leadership Development blogosphere.
The art of leadership
Bangkok Post - Thailand
I’m hearing a lot of interest in leadership development these days. Last year, both The Economist and Fortune magazine ran articles on the importance of …
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Originally published on June 23, 2008, The Best Leadership Books of All Time received so much feedback from readers who asked that we expound on our comments of these best sellers, that the editors of AskTheManager.com felt compelled to reissue our top ten list of The Best Leadership Books of All Time. We’re hopeful you [...]
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TheManager scoured the World Wide Web and found a few choice blog posts and interesting news articles covering Management Training and Leadership Development. Take a few moments to digest these recent articles and posts:
‘Visionary’ sports programme for Dubai
Financial Times - London,England,UK
The agreement, with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership Development and the Dubai Sports Council, aims [...]
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TheManager asks that you forgive these occasional off-topic rants, but some things outside of Leadership Development and Management Training need to see the light of day…
I was reading an article on AOL today about how consumers are getting ripped off in the finance office (sometimes called the business office) at their local car dealer. I [...]
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