January Management Journey Carnival

Originally published January 2013.

Welcome to the January edition of the Management Journey Carnival.  This month’s Carnival provides tips on employee engagement, strategy, social media, small business marketing, strategy leadership, talent management and other topics. Each Carnival consists of insightful articles from the web that contributors submit or that I select for inclusion.

An Oldie But Goodie

For our first Blog Carnival of 2013, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s national holiday, we’ll begin with a classic post from my blog, Management is a Journey. I’ve honored Dr. King for his change leadership and communication skills with several posts on this blog.

The ultimate goal of any leader should be to inspire others to effect positive change–to lead them to a better tomorrow. In my post, What I Owe Dr. Martin Luther King, I explain how his leadership vision and  change communication message forever positively changed  the self-view of a young American child. 


 2013

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It’s a New Year and it makes perfect sense for us to reflect on what we did last year and identify what we would like to accomplish this year. Some people do this through resolutions. Others argue for a different approach. Perhaps we can do a little bit of out-of-the-box thinking here to plan for 2013.

In her article, Forget Resolutions: Review Your Biggest Mistakes Instead, Margaret Heffernan of Inc explains that she takes some time to look through the calendar and identify what she did wrong: not out of a love of self-flagellation, but because she’d dearly like not to make the same mistakes twice.—Planning


 

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Social Media Corner

Social Media Corner

Many of us who have our own businesses maintain a blog like this one.  Blogging is a lot of work particularly if your goal is to give your readers quality content so it helps to use quality tools to make this process more efficient. In her article, Google is Trying to Tell You Something, Are You Listening?, Ileane Smith of Basic Blog Tips reminds us not to overlook two of our greatest resources. —Blogging

Social media photo credit: Courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net.


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Featured Video

Featured Video

How the world continues to change! If you’re a Baby Boomer manager, it’s important to keep up with these changes to maintain your relevance in today’s workplace. Social media is a great example.  In this month’s featured video from Harvard Business Review, Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry provides some insights worthy of consideration in the discussion, How Burberry Manages Talent.—Talent Management

 


 

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Articles

Featured Articles

This month’s featured articles explore a variety of management and leadership topics.  We’ll get started with some important insights on marketing.

Do you feel stressed? You probably are! Is there something wrong with you? Likely not! As Heidi Grant Halvorson of Psychology Today explains, life in the modern workplace is full of stress. Fortunately, she provides science-based strategies for keeping stress at bay in her article, Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress.

What can you learn from the founder and chairman of the largest online mortgage company in the world, the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a owner of two casinos in Ohio, and the primary investor in over 60 other companies? As Josh Linkner explains on his blog, Dan Gilbert has 27 lessons from 27 years to share with you.— Management

This concludes the January 2013 edition of the Management Journey Carnival.

Robert

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Robert Tanner, MBA

Welcome to my leadership blog. I'm the Founder & Principal Consultant of Business Consulting Solutions LLC, a certified practitioner of psychometric assessments, and a former Adjunct Professor of Management. As a leadership professional, I bring 20+ years of real world experience at all levels of management.

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