Archive for September, 2008

Sales Management Blogwatch - September 28, 2008

 
The Best of the Sales Management Blogosphere
As is our custom at AskTheManager.com, we’ve scoured the Sales Management Blogs to bring you the very best posts and articles from the past week.
For the past several months, we’ve paid close attention to the Leadership Development, Management Training, Time Management and Sales Management Blogs, and we have [...]

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Sales Management - Blogwatch September 21, 2008

 
Sales Management – The Best of the Blogs
The Sales Management Blogs have been as busy as the editors of AskTheManager. We’ve been remiss at brining you the very best Sales Management tips and advice, but we’re back with a vengeance.
There is some great advice in this week’s blog posts and articles. We hope you enjoy [...]

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Yahoo Buzz is the Leadership Tool for Social Bookmarking - Sorry Digg, Yahoo Wins

We Digg the New Buzz
Digg this, Yahoo Buzz is the new Digg. Digg, at www.digg.com was the social bookmarking site to end all social bookmarking sites. Not del.ci.ous, not propeller, and not stumbleupon could even come close to the diggity world of Digg.com.
Everything was running smoothly at Digg until Yahoo, which might have the worst [...]

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Leadership and Impartiality - AskTheManager

Leadership and Impartiality
Of all the leadership development lessons we can learn from the 2008 Presidential Elections, there is probably none so clear as how the lack of impartiality equates to poor leadership.
Interestingly, these lessons are not learned so much from the candidates –Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin most certainly lost their ability to remain neutral [...]

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Lehman Brothers, Leadership and Business Bankruptcy

 
Leadership and Business Bankruptcy
Bennigan’s, Mrs. Fields and Lehman Brothers. Not really three names you’d ever expect to see in the same sentence, but all three have one thing in common: they all declared bankruptcy in 2008 and substandard leadership is to blame.
Lehman Brothers is certainly the most shocking name on this list. A [...]

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NY Times Business Best Sellers - Hardcover September 2008

 
New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – September 2008
 
Here are the Top 5 on the NY Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list for September 2008. To see the complete list (and to see a great choice at Number 8 this month) follow this link.
 
At eight on the September list (seventh last month) is a [...]

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When Leaders Forget The Goal - The Dilemma Of Annoying Your Customers

 
Forgetting The Goal – A Leadership Dilemma
Everywhere consumers turn today they see examples of poor leadership. They may not recognize these little inconveniences as leadership voids, but they are voids nonetheless.
While the lack of true leadership in American business spells trouble for employees and middle managers, a byproduct of this missing leadership is the consumer [...]

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Time Management - Blogwatch September 15, 2008

 
Time Management Blogwatch – September 15, 2008
We not only had a pretty good week on the time management blogs (as you’ll note by our selections below), but we also read one of the better time management books ever written.
While not the best time management book ever (that crown still rests with Stephen Covey’s The 7 [...]

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