Bye, by David Zinger I enjoyed writing 1/2 of Slacker Manager for the past 15 months. I wrote close to 200 posts at this site. Thank you to Phil Gerbyshak for being my partner through thick, thin, and numerous behind the scene quirks, glitches, and changes. I wish Phil all the best with this site and know he can continue to keep this a leading site for management and leadership. It was strange to have a partner for 15 months that I never met in person but I really felt I got to know Phil from his writing, his emails, and our phone calls. Thank you to b5media for letting me write this blog. Thank you to the channel editors for your perspective and explanations. Thank you to Bren Connelly for creating this blog. But most of all, and my favorite... [Read more]

The last word on management is yours… by David Zinger Reminder: This is the Change Poverty – Two Cent Challenge. Click the penny below to join us: Here are the responses you gave to the September 23rd request for one word for management.Thank you for your responses. You have the last word in management on Slacker Manager with David Zinger.This is the last management article I am writing for the blog. In two days, On October 30 I will express my thanks and say my farewell. Here are the people and their word: Gerald Management = Details. Carrie Stupidity Devin Willis Service Koen availability Harry Priorities Phil Dourado Outdated JoelC Management = nurturing Chris Parente management = leadership Darth Sidious Control Bo... [Read more]

The Age of Conversation 2 is here. I was fortunate to be one of the many fine contributors. You are going to be seeing a lot about this book in the next few days! [Read more]

Here are two of my presentations on SlideShare. The first is on the credit crunch: Click here if the show does not load in this window. Crunched By Credit View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: cents upheaval) This second slide show is an appeal to bloggers to donate two cents to overcoming poverty for every word you write next week. You choose who receives you money, you could give $20 for each picture – as a picture is worth a thousand words! Click here to commit to this initiative. 2 Cent Campaign View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: zinger learning) [Read more]

Click on the Penny to Change Poverty One More time by David Zinger This post appeared in April and had some wonderful responses that I have included here. I thought I’d do it once again… Just once…We all have dreams.Some of us even wake up.Most of us forget our dreams.Or we don’t feel entitled to our own dream.What is your “just-once” dream as a manager.Articulate your dream by completing the following sentence:Just once I’d like to ___________________ . Perhaps you’d like to just once have an empty inbox, or just once you’d like to tell your manager what you really think, or just once you’d like to put a pillow on your desk, curl up into a ball, and wake up in a place far, far away from your cubicle.No dream... [Read more]