They’re at the Post: Winning Management Posts (2)

Here is the next installment of They’re at the Post: Winning Management Posts. Today’s top post come from: Tom Peters, Dan Schwable, and Jack Ricchiuto.

Tom Peters has an insightful and acerbic post: Competing to Achieve Excellence You are Your Only Competitior! This is a must read if you are a manager who wants people to work for you and you are not ready to go to war for talent. Are you making your workplace attractive enough? As Peters states in the post: the bedrock of finding and keeping and co-creating with great folks is not about clever tools to induce prospective “thems” to “shop [live] with us,” but a 99% internal effort to create such an exciting, spirited, entrepreneurial, diverse, humane “professional home” that people will be lining up by the gazillions (physically or electronically) to try and get a chance to come and live in our house and become what they’d never imagined they could become! If you like what you read, or Tom has you thinking, I encourage you to go his 36-slide Special Presentation, The Case for Internal Focus: “Brand Inside” Rules!

Are you a brand as a manager? What is your brand? Are you confused by branding. Dan Schwable at The Personal Branding Blog has written a post What is the real definition of Personal Branding? New project! This post links to Dan’s pursuit of using a wiki to determine a best definition of personal branding. Personal branding encompasses personality, appearance, competencies and differentiation. Visit Dan’s blog and his wiki to become a BRAND new manager. 

Jack Ricchiuto writes a pithy and powerful blog called jack/zen. The posts are short yet the impact can be long.  I encourage you to visit his blog, read one of the posts, and meditate on what he offers us. A recent post this week was on authentic leadership. Rather than a 300 page inauthentic look at the topic, Jack Ricchiuto distilled it to this cogent expression: Authentic leadership begins with honesty about self. It is the place of humility that inspires beginner’s mind in all things. Honesty about short and long comings, honesty about vision and uncertainty. This places the leader neither above nor below anyone else. This allows the leader to invite others to do the same.

All the best as you read, learn and perform.

David Zinger loves the range of management bloggers from Tom Peters to Jack Ricchiuto