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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 [...]

Tags: Leadership Resources, management resource lists, Rankings, Recommended Products

 
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 [...]

Tags: Management Blogs, management resource lists, sales management, sales training

 
Holiday Gifts for the Office Crowd
‘tis the season to think about all the people who helped you get where you are today. Whether you are a senior leader or an up-and-coming manager, it’s important for you to thank those who make an impact in your work life. And by “thank,” I mean give them something [...]

Tags: leadership gifts, management resource lists, Rankings, Recommended Products

 
The Best of the Time Management Blogs
Although we already identified the number one time management of all time tool earlier this week (to see this post, follow this link), we felt compelled to scan the blogosphere and deliver to you the best of the Time Management Blogs from the past few weeks.

Time Management Optimization
Simply [...]

Tags: management resource lists, Online Management Training

The Rolling Briefcase – A Leader’s Most Important Tool?
Not since Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) and his coworkers marveled at the color, font and texture of one another’s business cards in 2000’s American Psycho has a business tool garnered as much admiration and created as much jealousy as the rolling briefcases being dragged through America today.
Whether [...]

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Best Sales Management Blog Posts – Week of August 31, 2008
 
The editors of AskTheManager scoured the World Wide Web to bring you the Best Sales Management blog posts and article available for the week of August 31, 2008 – slim pickings on a holiday weekend.
 
Of course, most leadership development and management-related blogs on the [...]

Tags: management resource lists, sales management, sales training

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

Some quick links covering the spectrum of Management, Training and General Business:

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning … The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning … Books > Professional & Technical > Business Management > Organizational Behavior …
SPIN Selling: Neil Rackham: Books Journal Of Marketing Management ” … Amazon.com Sales [...]

Tags: management resource lists, Management Training, Online Management Training