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Leadership, Personal Relationships and Infidelity
John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer, Kwame Kilpatrick and Jennifer Aniston’s mates. What do these men have in common? Hint: they are all alleged to have a problem keeping their pants on in the presence of women who are not their significant others.
After hearing about the John Edwards infidelity revelations a few [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership news and views, leadership observations

 
Leadership and Business Bankruptcy
Bennigan’s, Mrs. Fields and Lehman Brothers. Not really three names you’d ever expect to see in the same sentence, but all three have one thing in common: they all declared bankruptcy in 2008 and substandard leadership is to blame.
Lehman Brothers is certainly the most shocking name on this list. A [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership news and views, Leadership Situations, management 101

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 [...]

Tags: Leadership, Leadership Resources, Links to Leadership Resources, management resource lists, Online Management Training

 
What is the value of experience?
 
With the November election growing ever closer, a liberal colleague of mine asked what I thought about experience as it applies to the White House. (For the sake of full disclosure, TheManager is a fiscally-conservative independent… aren’t all capitalists?)
 
My friend knows that at virtually all levels of management I argue [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership news and views, leadership observations

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty is highlighting one of the finest and funniest contests about leadership and management from the AFL-CIO…
FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
15 million workers in this country say they have a bad boss. A new survey also shows that 36 percent say they feel pressure to stay with said bad boss because of the [...]

Tags: Leadership, Management

Originally published on June 23, 2008, The Best Leadership Books of All Time received so much feedback from readers who asked that we expound on our comments of these best sellers, that the editors of AskTheManager.com felt compelled to reissue our top ten list of The Best Leadership Books of All Time. We’re hopeful you [...]

Tags: Best Sellers, Business Books, Leadership, leadership development

TheManager scoured the World Wide Web and found a few choice blog posts and interesting news articles covering Management Training and Leadership Development. Take a few moments to digest these recent articles and posts:
‘Visionary’ sports programme for Dubai
Financial Times - London,England,UK
The agreement, with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership Development and the Dubai Sports Council, aims [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership development, leadership news and views, leadership observations, Management Training, Online Management Training

Leadership versus Management
 
Included in the great debates of business today is the always interesting “Leadership v. Management” fight. Whenever I read an online business blog or leadership resource that tackles this seeming duality, I find it interesting that there seem to be only two ways this topic is presented…
 

Lists of overlapping similar and dissimilar characteristics [...]

Tags: Leadership, Leadership Advice, leadership development, Management, Management Training