They’re at the Post: Winning Managment Articles

Here is the review of 4 winning management articles written this week:

1. John Moore at Brant Autopsy has an insightful post on: Why is Everyone Smiling? This post is based on Paul Speigelman’s work at Beryl. One of Paul’s key management practices is: Employees should always expect fun just around the corner. Read this post right to the end to learn the 10 ways to make people smile. Are you smiling Phil?
2. Anna Farmery offers a magical post, Magic Tricks for Great Leaders at The Engaging Brand Blog. She offers 5 suggestions on creating magic by using the word MAGIC as an acronym. Here are a couple of lines from her post: Great leaders create a magical corporate environment that engages employees – they inspire people to achieve what seems the impossible. They understand that they need to inform, entertain and engage their audience. In reality there is no magic to leadership, it is about treating people like the human beings that they are!
3. Scot Herrick is creating 30 career management tips this month at Cube Rules: Career Management for Cubicle Warriors. I love the term “cubicle warriors.” Find your mud is a post about knowing where there are issues and starting to work on them independently of any direction from others. Here is Scot’s conclusion to the post: People are afraid to dig up their own mud. They don’t want to acknowledge their mistakes. And it costs them in terms of their career and personal brand. Dig up that mud. Get busy with your mud and read Scot’s blog to become a cubicle warrior!
4. Hugh MacLeod at gapinvoid offers 40 random thoughts on cartooning. Gapinvoid provides insightful and entertaining cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. Here are two samples from his list of 45:  16. One of the smartest things I ever did was figure out that making money indirectly off the cartoons was far easier than trying to make the money directly. If I could teach gapingvoid readers just one thing, that would be it.  41. Art is simply using the tools at hand to ask the question, “What is possible?” Painting, music, literature, it doesn’t matter what media one uses. What matters is the question.

David Zinger is very impressed with the exceptional quality of writing on so many management blogs. These short reviews are devoted to extending the shelf life of the ephemeral nature of blog posts.