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Goldman Leaders Forgo 2008 Bonuses
In a recent email from one of our readers, we were asked to weigh in on the Goldman Sachs Group’s leadership decision to request no bonuses for the current calendar year.

What are your thoughts on the following article?  How does this reflect leadership during these troubled times? – Tye Mills

(To [...]

Tags: leadership development, leadership news and views, leadership observations, Leadership Situations, Leadership Weblog, management 101

 
Circuit City – Another One Bites the Dust
In what might be the least surprising business announcement of 2008, Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.
Wow, really? Color us shocked.
To be honest, we’re a little shocked it took this long. We’re also a little surprised that their creditors aren’t forcing them [...]

Tags: leadership development, leadership observations, Management Training, typical manager

 
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

 
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

 
Questions from Our Readers – Empowering Your Team to Make Decisions
In response to our recent post regarding empowering your team to make decisions (to read that post, follow this link), Olzhas writes:

How do managers make decisions? How might they make better decisions? How do job satisfaction and organizational commitment affect an individual’s behavior at work? [...]

Tags: improving management, leadership development, Management Development, Management Training, managers, typical manager

 
Leadership Development Blogwatch

Hey, Mr. Manager, what happened to the weekly blogwatch on leadership? – Jerry in Nevada

Wow, we didn’t think anyone would notice if we took a couple of weeks off – no one seems to care when Congress leaves their business unfinished. (I mean, we keep reelecting most of them, don’t we?)
For Jerry, and [...]

Tags: leadership development, leadership news and views, Leadership Weblog

 
Leadership Development – Best Leadership Blogs for the Week of September 12, 2008
Great week for the leadership writers. The editors of AskTheManager were able to find some terrific posts and articles from some of the best leadership development blogs.
Could all this leadership development activity have anything to do with the nomination of the relatively [...]

Tags: leadership development, leadership news and views, Leadership Weblog

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