Saturday Morning Management Round-Up

This is my first Saturday morning management round-up, of a few of the best articles and resources I found this week. I hope you find a few new places to feed your management head this weekend. Please feel free to leave your favorite links (even if they’re your own) in the comments. One link per comment please, or I’ll have to fish them out of the spam pool.

Jon Gordon writes about a Positive Business Manifesto:

“However, if building a positive business is so important and beneficial, then we are left to wonder, ‘Why aren’t more companies, more positive?’  Why are there not more people skipping through the halls, smiling at their co-workers and loving their job? Why do more people die Monday morning at 9am than any other time? Why does negativity cost companies 300 billion dollars 1 and sabotage teamwork, careers, morale and performance?”

Ron Bronson authored a fantastic manifesto about managing and motivating millenials:

“You don’t have to give up stock in your company, to give a young worker a feeling that s(he) is contributing to themselves, as well as the firm’s bottom line. But you do need to invest in their sense of desire to contribute in meaningful ways to institutions that matter. To them, coming to work is an exercise in mutual benefit."

Chris Young offers some great advice for hiring managers:

"If I can give managers one piece of hiring advice to improve the employee selection process based on my observations at this coffee shop it would be this:  Give your candidates a chance to speak and refrain from dominating the interview!"

Seth Godin brings us the 90/10 rule of marketing a job

“…organizations that work best with extraordinary talent are almost certainly not investing enough in finding and developing it. If marketing works so well that you spend a fortune on it, why aren’t you marketing your jobs? If talent is so important that you are betting the company on it, why aren’t you actually investing in finding and retaining that talent?”

Wally Bock talks about the workplace of the future:

“We can expect changes in the workplace because of the changing nature of work. More and more work is knowledge work. Increasingly what people know and the relationships they’ve developed have become key sources of competitive advantage.”