Time Management Blogwatch – December 2008
For what it’s worth, we cobbled together the best of the time management blog posts and articles from this past month of procrastination fascination.
Lest you think we’re kidding about the drivel that fills the time management blogs, imagine reading the thousands of posts we rejected including one that detailed [...]
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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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The Best of the Sales Management Blogs
A colleague asked me this week about my first commissioned sales job – he, too, started in sales and worked his way up to management. After a few minutes of friendly banter about old school sales managers and the like, we went back to our regular grind.
Reflecting back [...]
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Management Training Blogs – The Best of the Best
As is a semi-regular custom here, the editors of AskTheManager.com scoured the billions of pages of the World Wide Web to bring you the best Management Training-related blog posts and articles for past few weeks.
The pickings are slim here, folks. This means we either do a [...]
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The Best of the Management Training Blogs – Week of October 14, 2008
The past week saw some decent, though not terrific posts, advice and articles for managers interested in growing their leadership skills. The editors of AskTheManager.com combed through the drivel to deliver you the Best of the Management Training Blogs, enjoy!
Being a Leader in [...]
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New Managers – Avoiding the Inevitable Traps
AC from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (that’s in Canada for the geographically challenged leaders out there) wrote us in August for some advice on how to gain respect as a new manager. To read her original concerns and our response, please follow this link.
We were anxious about her situation, because [...]
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Which Presidential or Vice Presidential Hopeful Would Make the Best Leader?
Over the past several days, the editors of AskTheManager.com released their leadership ratings and rankings of all forty-two US Presidents from Washington to Bush. We examined how these men would perform as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company by using what we believe are [...]
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How Do US Presidents Rank as Business Leaders? (Part Three of Three)
(This is the third article in a three-series post. Please see the first and second articles in this series by following this link for our notes associated with each President, and this link for our “worst to first” rankings of the US Presidents as [...]
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