New Leadership and Management Writing this Week:
- I was thrilled to release my new (free, registration required) e-book: “A Bold Cup of Leadership Caffeine: Ideas to Stimulate High Performance.” This brief, colorful 32-page guide is filled with some of the more popular guidance from a select number of my over 1,100 posts. Enjoy it and use it in great leadership health!
- For anyone feeling a bit beaten up or down: “Tough Leadership Day? Smile and Keep Marching”
- Living through that corporate fun we call a merger? Here are some ideas that will help you navigate this opportunity successfully: “Ideas for Surviving and Thriving as a Manager During a Merger”
- Your decision-making effectives plays a big role in your ability to advance. Here’s some helpful guidance on: “How to Make Better Decisions at Work”
- And for everyone living in dread of yet another status meeting: “How to Make Your Management Meetings More Productive”
Use the ideas in great leadership and management health!
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Management and Leadership Musings on the Week:
I step softly on political issues outside of the office kind, here on the blog, but the politics as theater in our world is too fascinating to ignore. We are indeed involved in what is our fabulous right to select our leader(s), yet, we are reduced to a spectacle that has grown men (in this case) vying to lead their party by hurling insults (OK, 3 of 4 hurl insults) that remind one more of the playground than the boardroom or the seat of power. On the other side, the leading candidate would love to seize the moment, yet faces the dumbest technical decision (e-mail server) since Nixon decided to secretly record conversations in the White House. Where will it end and what will it look like when it is finished? At least we know when. C’mon November!
The U.S. economy is showing signs of strong resilience, in spite of the global headwinds, as evidenced in the recent round of job numbers and an upbeat performance in the past week by our stock market. Of course, this sounds like the cue for the FED to raise rates, insuring no return of inflation in a world that looks a lot like it is in a deep and dangerous deflationary spiral.
As for milestones, we lost two people who had an impact last week. Aubrey Mcclendon, the father of much of the fracking boom in the U.S. and one of the prime drivers behind the cheap gas and fuel prices we are all enjoying passed in an automobile crash a day after being indicted. In the world of sports, the voice of tennis for my generation, Bud Collins, finished his final set.