October Management Journey Carnival

Originally published October 2011.

Welcome to the October edition of the Management Journey Carnival.  Topics for the Management Journey Blog Carnival include interpersonal effectiveness, managing the 4 generations, emotional intelligence, communication, innovation, change management, teamwork, leadership skills, customer service, and other related topics. This blog carnival presents top recent posts from thought leaders around the web.

As we head into the last several months of 2011, the blogosphere continues to be enlightened with thoughtful contributors who share their insights on the management journey.  For the October Management Journey Blog Carnival, let’s review the wisdom of insightful thought leaders:

Featured Podcast

Our featured podcast this month comes from Sara Green of Harvard Business Review. She interviews Steven Levy, Senior Writer at Wired Magazine. Levy provides some interesting thoughts on what made Jobs successful in spite of some of the known limitations of Steve Job’s leadership style (every leader has some). Levy argues for Steve Jobs: A Perfect CEO.

 

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Articles

Featured Articles

Some suggest that one reason more women are not in the top ranks is because more of them do not want to be there.  In her article, Advice for Ambitious Women, Melissa Anderson of The Glass Hammer explains the fallacy of this reasoning and shows why women need to advocate for themselves.

It seems there is never enough time and this is particularly true for “stressed-out” managers trying to balance all of the demands of this time. How can managers improve their time management skills?  Like most performance problems, improvement starts with analysis and measurement.  Jurgen Apello of Noop.NL shows the power of these tools in his post, The Purpose of Time Tracking.

Unlocking the creative and innovative forces within us can be difficult at times.  Before we ever hear the objections of others, we often have to mediate the battle of internal, competing voices that argue with each other in our own head.  In his article, Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: Unlocking Our Personas to Get Unstuck, Ed Batista of Ed Batista Consulting provides a useful framework for mediating these voices and unlocking our creative potential.

What do you want to do when you grow up?  Many managers in the workplace are still asking themselves this question.  Jonathan Mulligan of CPA Career Coach offers three good questions to find out What Should I Do With My Life?

Management coaching is a growing field.  Satisfaction with business coaching services varies however.  Where does the problem lie?  Rajesh Setty of RajeshSetty.com tackles this issue in his post, Seven Reasons Why Most Coaching Programs May Not Work For You.

Although change is an inevitable part of life, the uncertainty it brings is unsettling for many and paralyzing for some. Since we live in an age of constant change, managers must effectively handle the fear that comes with organizational change.  For my contribution to this month’s carnival, I offer Five Strategies for Managing the Fear of Change from Management is a Journey.

Being a manager requires taking difficult and unpopular actions at times. With managers, it is often not “what they do” however that is the problem, but rather “how they do it.”  Ron Thomas of Strategy Focused HR explains why this is true in his post, The Lesson From Yahoo: Like It or Not Every Manager IS a Role Model.

This concludes the October 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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