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Leadership Means Knowing When Not To Act
Remember that great little restaurant you frequented a few years ago? You know the one; they had that terrifically tasty dish that kept you coming back again and again. Remember when they changed ownership and the new proprietors altered the recipes?
The way I remember it, the new owners [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership news and views, leadership observations, management mistakes

 
Managing Up – Overcoming the Fear of Leading the Dullards Above You
Explaining to your boss or your boss’ boss that he/she is an idiot is never a good idea, though everyday in American business we are faced with substandard leadership and a mission at hand. How can we help move the business forward when we [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, Management Training, managers, typical manager

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 [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership traits, management 101

 
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 [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership observations, Leadership Situations

Leadership Lessons from Fantasy Football
Tonight kicks off another season of NFL Football. To many, this is the most anticipated day of the year – especially to the millions of fantasy football players.
The editors of AskTheManager are fantasy football fanatics and we spent most of our draft last week discussing how fantasy football intersects with management [...]

Tags: Digression, Leadership Advice, Lessons from Pro Sports, Management

Leadership Development Blogwatch
 
The leadership development blogs were running a little slow this week (Labor Day Holiday and all), but the editors of AskTheManager.com were able to dig through the lot and find some gems, including some Christian-based posts with good advice for the secular humanists of the world. Enjoy!
Leadership Development Workshops
By Fabian Toulouse
Some people [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, Leadership Weblog

 
Potential Employer With Great Promises and a Lowball Offer
 

I am faced with a dilemma and I need some advice. Although I am currently employed, I had a meeting with a prospective employer and things went (mostly) great. Although they knew my salary restrictions going in, they balked at guaranteeing anything near that amount and they [...]

Tags: Job Interviews, Job Offers, Leadership Advice, typical manager

 
Pride, Leadership, and The Green Bay Packers
Excuse the abridgement, but Proverbs 16:18 said it best: Pride goes before a fall.
The leadership lessons we’ve gleaned so far from the pre-season struggles between Brett Lorenzo Favre (hereafter “Cuatro”) and the Green Bay Packers have been plentiful. (To read an earlier lesson from these two juggernauts of [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership news and views, leadership observations