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Great Recruiting and Hiring Tool – and it’s Free!
It’s not often we are swayed by someone’s idea of the latest, coolest website on the Internet, but we discovered a website recently that absolutely could cut time and dollars off the way managers and companies recruit and hire new employees today.
Typically, companies must spend between [...]

Tags: Links to Leadership Resources, management resources

 
The Best of the Sales Management Blogs
A colleague asked me this week about my first commissioned sales job – he, too, started in sales and worked his way up to management. After a few minutes of friendly banter about old school sales managers and the like, we went back to our regular grind.
Reflecting back [...]

Tags: Management Blogs, management resource lists, sales management, sales training

 
Holiday Gifts for the Office Crowd
‘tis the season to think about all the people who helped you get where you are today. Whether you are a senior leader or an up-and-coming manager, it’s important for you to thank those who make an impact in your work life. And by “thank,” I mean give them something [...]

Tags: leadership gifts, management resource lists, Rankings, Recommended Products

 
Management Training Blogs – The Best of the Best
As is a semi-regular custom here, the editors of AskTheManager.com scoured the billions of pages of the World Wide Web to bring you the best Management Training-related blog posts and articles for past few weeks.
The pickings are slim here, folks. This means we either do a [...]

Tags: Management Blogs, Management Training

 
The Best of the Time Management Blogs
Although we already identified the number one time management of all time tool earlier this week (to see this post, follow this link), we felt compelled to scan the blogosphere and deliver to you the best of the Time Management Blogs from the past few weeks.

Time Management Optimization
Simply [...]

Tags: management resource lists, Online Management Training, time managment

 
New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – November 2008
 
An historical election behind us and a bleak short-term future ahead, we find ourselves at a very interesting time. When will the market hit bottom? How high will unemployment ultimately reach? Will Chrysler and GM survive to see 2010? Can Barack Obama and a Democratic [...]

Tags: Best Sellers, Business Books

 
Best of the Leadership Development Blogs
Partly due to the 2008 Presidential Race and partly due to the NFL season (now in week 10), we’ve had trouble finding too many great posts or articles on the Leadership Development blogs.
What we could find in the last few weeks was often too mediocre to recommend to [...]

Tags: leadership development, Leadership Weblog

 
Time Management’s Greatest Tool Ever
The Internet (especially the blogosphere) is filled with advice extolling every flavor of tip and trick designed to help you manage your time better. New managers are especially vulnerable to the lure of something easy that can help them squeeze more hours out of every day.
The truth is that you [...]

Tags: time management