Management Zingers: Get Charged Up with these Blog Posts

Management Zingers will help charge up your management.

Here are 6 Management Zingers, blog posts that can add some zing to your management.

Jodee Bock, from Fargo, writes about “No, really what do you want?”: very few people ever really get serious about dreaming about what they really want in their lives, whether that’s at work or outside of work. We seem to be more content to just drift along in our lives, fully expecting that someday we’ll figure it out.

Tom Peters write about relationships as our competitive advantage: We all want our customers to believe “I can’t get it anywhere else” when they think of us. Relationships between you and a customer are often the best opportunity to create something unique and irreplaceable in your customer’s mind.

Bob Sutton writes that failure sucks but instructs: That is why Jeff Pfeffer and I argue that the best single diagnostic question you can ask about an organization is: What Happens When People Fail? As research on creativity and learning shows (see this story on the “July effect” in study by Robert Huckman  and Jason Barro of 700 hospitals over 8 years – mortality rates went up 4% when the new residents came in), it is impossible to do anything new or learn anything new without making mistakes.

Judy McLeish write about employee engagement and living the core values: You discover your core ideology by looking inside. It has to be authentic. You can’t fake it. It’s meaningful only to people inside your organization and it need not be exciting to others outside. It’s an individual journey. And it is in the authenticity, the discipline of the consistency of the values, not the content, that differentiate the greatest companies from the rest.

Stephen Shapiro outlines some options and alternative to run a mastermind group, often used for speakers but possibly a very group for managers: Let me give you some interesting ways in which you can run your mastermind sessions. Unless noted otherwise, assume your mastermind group is four to six people who meet on a somewhat regular basis (once a month or once a quarter).

Alexander Kjerulf  listed the top 10 signs your are unhappy at work: Number 8: Small things bug you. Small annoyances bug you out of all proportion. Like someone taking up too much space in the parking lot, someone taking the last coffee without brewing a new pot or someone talking too loudly in the next cubicle. When you’re unhappy you have much thinner skin and a shorter fuse. It takes a lot less to annoy you.

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David Zinger focuses on employee engagement and strength based leadership. You can read his work at www.davidzinger.com.