Originally published March 2013.

Welcome to the March edition of the Management Journey Carnival. This month’s Carnival provides tips on emotional intelligence, social media, marketing, decision making, process improvement, human resources, sales and other topics. Each Carnival consists of insightful articles from the web that contributors submit or that I select for inclusion.

Let’s get started with an older article that provides management help with no expiration date.

What’s the state of management and leadership in 2012? A recent study finds that “65% of employees say they would take a new boss over a pay raise, and 3 out of every 4 employees say their boss is the most stressful part of their job.” Bad management and leadership is hurting organizational productivity. Fortunately, in this month’s Carnival, David Rock of Psychology Today offers practical help for this problem in his article, 5 Big Discoveries About Leadership in 2012. — Leadership

Featured Podcast: A Little Self Promotion Might Do You Some Good!

You’ve been taught and you live by the principle that you should never toot your own horn. Instead, you believe in letting your hard work speak for itself.  Keep your head down, do good managerial work, and your senior leadership team will notice and appreciate your efforts! Right? Unfortunately, the answer is wrong! In this month’s featured podcast, learn from the Center for Creative Leadership,  Why Now is the Right Time for Self-Promotion. – Career Management

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Decision Making Corner: There’s Help Here!

As Marelisa Fábrega of Daring to Live Fully explains, most people are not taught how to make effective decisions. Since life and business are full of choices, it’s unfortunate that more attention is not given to this area. Marelisa provides needed help in her article, Three Effective Methods for Making Better Decisions. — Decision Making

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Social Media Corner: There’s Help Here Too!

You work in human resources and you just published your social media policy. Your organization just cannot have every frustrated manager and employee going on their Facebook pages to criticize senior leadership. As Gretchen Gavett of Harvard Business Review explains, social media policies are an area where you will need legal advice, however. In her article she explores, Is Your Social Media Policy Useless? — Social Media/Human Resources

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Featured Articles: A Collection of Thought Leader Insights

If innovation is lacking at a company, who’s to blame? As Scott Anthony of Harvard Business Review explains, Your Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem. “It’s time for leadership to step up. Match innovation rhetoric with personal involvement and investment.” — Innovation

How innovative are “the most innovative” companies in real life? Are the lists of the “most innovative companies” in popular magazines accurate? Jeff DeGraff of Management Innovation eXchange takes the contrary view in his article, Why the “Most Innovative Companies” Aren’t? — Innovation

As a new CEO, you need to make dramatic improvements in your company to avoid becoming the latest casualty in your complex, fast-changing industry. Should you institute a restrictive recruitment policy that focuses on the best from elite colleges? Should you change the company’s work-at-home policies? Charlie Osborne of ZDNet explores these real time dilemmas in her article, Yahoo CEO Endures Criticism over Hiring Practices. — Human Resources

Finally, the last article for this month’s Carnival comes from my blog, Management is a Journey. As a person and as a manager, how much of your power are you giving away to others? Maybe, too much! In my article, Is Your Self-Worth Based on What Others Think and Say?, I provide four reasons why it is unwise to care too much about whether others accept you into their group and recognize your good efforts. — Emotional Intelligence

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

Robert