New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – January 2009
A quick review of the January 2009 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list and you wouldn’t know we were in a recession. Where are all the financial survival guides? Where are all the “end is near” and Nostradamus tomes?
Instead of the expected [...]
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Great Leadership Blog Worthy of Special Mention – CatchYourLimit.com
As our regular readers know, we produce four semi-regular Blogwatch series covering Time Management, Sales Management, Management Training and Leadership Development. In these series we attempt to help you cut through the clutter and discover great writing and great advice.
While we think we do a [...]
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Freakonomics: The Movie
During my extended time off between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I sat down with accomplished entrepreneur and filmmaker Chad Troutwine to discuss the most ambitious documentary ever to pique the interest of the editors of AskTheManager.com.
For those of you unfamiliar with Chad’s work, he is a founder (along with Markus Moberg) of [...]
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Time Management – The Fruitless Effort of Trying to Manage Something that is Unmanageable
The Time Management Blogosphere has not taken a break in advance of the holiday season; and they continue to deliver much of the same drivel that is common with Internet postings on managing time.
As any marginal leader knows, you cannot manage [...]
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Vendors Give The Darnedest Things…
Loyal reader Tye Mills sent us a question in response to our Leader’s Gift-Giving Guide article.
What are the top 10 wacky gifts you have received from vendors? – Tye Mills
Great question, Tye…
Hmm, let’s see, the unfortunate result of most truly wacky or bad gifts from vendors is that they are [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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