Info, info, info, info, info, info, info, info….everywhere but not a drop to think?
Are you bobbing, almost drowning, in a sea of information?
Take this article, why are you reading it? Don’t go away just yet, I have my own simple answer at the end.
We have reached the point where the productivity experts are just adding to that sea of information with their habits, tips, and endless suggestions about how to cope with our terrible information plight.

According to a recent article in msnbc a majority of workers feel overwhelmed by a deluge of data:

7 out of 10 office workers in the United States …read more

Here are  this week’s Management Zingers

These are 5 of the best leadership and management articles from the WEB during the past week. If you want to go directly to the post or article, click on the title at the front of each zinger.
Getting Passionate About Responsibility for Passion by Steve Roesler looks at passion in management. He offers some empowering advice for employees in relationship to their manager: If you want a good shot at using your talents where you are now, then take the responsibility for making it happen. Nothing warms a manager’s heart more than seeing someone who is passionate …read more

Here are some key questions NOT to ask yourself as a manager:
 
Why am I doing this?
How come when I look at all the hours I put in I make less per hour than the people I manage?
How did my boss ever get to be the boss?
How did this person end up in my department?
Why does everyone insist on telling me everything about everyone else?
Why did I get a degree in business when my work is more like a combination of an overworked air traffic controller combined with a psychiatrist?
Doesn’t my family know I am just doing all this for them?
How …read more

Years ago there was a popular book called The One Minute Manager. Who has a minute anymore in 2008? We need to shorten our management time cycles.
Why read a textbook when you can text? Why read when you can scan? Why have a conversation when you can interact with the people you manage with just two words.
Think of all the time you will save when you respond to everything with just two words.

Here are 27 power phrases to get you started on the path to being a 2-word manager:

You bet
Yes but
Not me
Good job
Get working
Last chance
Well said
No more
Forget it
Call me
What’s up
Tough luck
Fat chance
You …read more

Here are my current top 5 management ZINGERS.

 
Business Intelligence – BI #16 – Business with Purpose Part 1: This is an informative podcast from the Canadian Management Centre on the central importance of purpose for good companies to go to great. John Eckmire interviews  Nikos Mourkogiannis. Some of the same concepts could apply to individual managers.

Simple questions such as “What will sustain Morale?” “What will make people proud to go to work?” can be worked through using the concept of purpose to drive individual and collective actions.  Nikos points out that simply going to work for a pay cheque is not a …read more

I am getting worried about myself. I think pixie dust from Tom Peter’s NONSTOP RANTING is rubbing off on me. Today, I am ticked off at competent managers and managerial competencies.
Competencies and list of competencies are an incredible anemic pathway to robust management practice and development.

You know what I am talking about: Those competency tables and lists that can be 300 pages long outlining all the things you should be able to do as a manager at a 3.5 level out of 5:

Performance management
Coaching
Communication
Creativity
Innovation
Financial Skills
Collaboration
Value Diversity
Change Management
And the list goes on…and on…and on…

Managers assess their competencies, get assessed by their …read more

I tend to keep my blogging for this site and my employee engagement site professional with minimal self-disclosure.
I am very comfortable with disclosure but I will do this on www.diehappytoday.com - my site for happiness and personal development.
 
A while back on Slacker Manager, Phil laid down the challenge to write about 6 things you don’t know about me. So here it is.
Grab a beer or a coffee if you prefer and have a more personal insight into 1/2 of Slacker Manager.

Yes, my last name really is Zinger. Like Phil I am also colorblind and I have used the pink ball as a cue …read more

Managment ZINGERS – Helping You Choose What to Read.
 
Our conundrum with so much information is to determine what to read. Management ZINGERS from Slacker Manager offers you eclectic resources on management. Each ZINGER includes, the title or author of the post with a click-able link to the article, a comment about the post, and a snippet from the post.
Ten Questions With Garr Reynolds is an interview of 13 questions by Guy Kawasaki on making effective presentations. When you are called upon to make a presentation I recommend you at least come back and read Garr so you are not going “grrrrr …read more