The Effect of Ego on Leadership
At AskTheManager.com we’ve always held to the belief that you can learn more from bad leadership examples than you can from the good ones. It’s not really cynical to think this way; in fact, we believe it’s quite healthy. It’s like seeking out the silver lining. We’ve [...]
It’s not a Recession, It’s a Necession
Anyone bothering to pay attention to what’s happening with consumer spending in the current recession can note one trend: that is, even those consumers who are likely to be unaffected by the economic downturn are helping fuel the recession because they’ve gone into wallet lockdown. They’ve declared that we [...]
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Circuit City – We Told You So…
In what was probably the easiest call in the last ten years, we told you Circuit City was going to go all the way (read our November 12, 2008 post if you don’t believe us). Back then we said you shouldn’t “be fooled by their reorganization plans; Circuit City [...]
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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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Best of the Leadership Development Blogosphere
We scoured the Leadership Development posts and articles for the past several weeks to find just those precious few that deserve your attention:
Are Leaders Born Or Made?
Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan studied the progress of 88000 managers who had been to leadership development training. The people who returned from the [...]
The Best of AskTheManager.com – 2008
One of our regular readers sent us a nice email last night wishing us, among other things, a Happy New Year. We know it wasn’t just a mass email sent to everyone in his address book because he requested we write this post today.
Specifically, he asked us to list [...]
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Leading in the New Millennium: Pay for (Lack of) Performance
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Although Sinclair’s words were uttered in 1935, they ring especially true when applied to the leadership void we face today. While Sinclair, a socialist, didn’t [...]
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2008: A Lesson in Recession and Leadership
The axiom “sales cure all ills” rings more true today than ever. More than anything it teaches us an inarguable lesson: that is, we learn more about leadership in bad times than we do in good times.
To prove this theory to yourself, imagine your company just 18 months ago [...]
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