Don’t Bring It to Work – Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success, by Sylvia Lafair, PhD
I absolutely love it when an expert in a non-business field brings their knowledge to the business world. Whether it’s a former all-star athlete turned successful businessman (ala Julius Erving), or a rehabbed musician turned stock trader (ala [...]
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The Ten Best Business Decision Making Books Ever Written
Gaining insight into how the editors of AskTheManager.com chose the Ten Best Decision Making Books Ever can itself be a lesson in decision making. While the list of qualified books on this subject is quite long, we decided early on to exclude any and all that read [...]
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Time Management Tools That Work – No Such Thing
If you’re a regular reader to this blog, you know we don’t put much stock in time management tips, tricks or techniques. We believe, like Stephen Covey, that you cannot manage time, you can only manage self. Any attempts, in fact, to manage time are just fruitless [...]
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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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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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The Wiki-Leader
Often on this blog, TheManager will deliver links to other great leadership and management blogs who post relevant articles covering Leadership Development and Management Training. For this post, TheManager scoured the seemingly infinite resources at Wikipedia.org to provide you with some great leadership links – enjoy.
Leadership - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leadership has a formal [...]
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Time management is more than just employing a few tips and tricks to help manage your day. As anyone who has tried to use time management tricks in the past knows, it doesn’t take long for you to fall back into your old routine.
Proper time management requires both a paradigm shift and new focus on [...]
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Here are the Top 5 on the list for June 2008. To see the complete list (and to see a great choice at #15) follow this link.
At number 15 this month is a great read from Marshall Goldsmith called What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – How Successful People Become Even More Successful! I [...]
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