4 Management Zingers

Here is your list of Management Zingers – essential posts managers need to read.

Get on the Zinger management bus. You can click on the person listed at the start of each snippet to read the full article. The section in italics is a short verbatim sample from the post.

1. Matthew Kelly who wrote The Dream Manager was interviewed on Tom Peter’s Cool Friends - a great site to learn more about book authors: Ideally, a Dream Manager is someone who has strong competitive urges. The three qualities we look for are hungry, humble, and smart. We want people to be hungry in the sense that they have some ambition. We want them to be humble in the sense that a Dream Manager is not responsible for living the dreams, and shouldn’t take the credit when people do live their dreams. We want them to be smart, not necessarily in the academic sense, but more street-smart.
2. Allison Esse wrote about The ‘permafrost’ of middle managers: It is the connection from which a leader (because managers are leaders) can see how the they can contribute, as leaders, to the journey, and in turn how the journey of the business will contribute to their own, personal agenda. Working through this, and enabling them to discover personal supporting material to add to their communications armoury in the way of anecdotes, proof points and killer facts on the way, will give them the confidence to help them bring the strategy to life in a way that is meaningful to their team.
3. Miki Saxon wrote about two kinds of followers: Thinking followers usually have a broader definition of comfort, critically evaluate individual ideas and attitudes, as opposed to blind across-the-board acceptance, and are more willing to consider compromises. They often challenge their leader offering additional considerations, thoughts, suggestions, as well as open disagreement.
4. Don Frederiksen wrote  a post on “And you thought leadership was hard.” Don summarized some thoughts from Dee Hock of VISA: 1. Make a list of all things done to you that you abhorred. 2. DON’T DO THEM TO OTHERS. EVER. 3. Make another list of things done to you that you loved. 4. DO THEM TO OTHERS. ALWAYS.

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Compiled by David Zinger – Employee Engagement Expert