Leadership, Management, & Supervisory Resources
My current favorites:
- My current favorite management and leadership book: if you only read one this year, start here! Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know: . . . About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
- My favorite management blog is Peter Bregman’s weekly “How We Work” on the Harvard Business Review site. With humor and a keen eye, he offers great insight and practical ideas for improving how we work. I liked it so much that I figured out how to do the RSS thing to get this column delivered to my email inbox!
- My favorite innovative way to use the web is the Change Management Open Source Project: Rick Maurer’s free online resource for people interested in learning, using and sharing Change Without Migraines™ approach. This uses a networking approach, like Facebook in some ways, that lets everyone participate, share, and learn from each other around the topic of change.
- Leading After Layoffs: Best Practices for Re-Energizing Your Workforce. Wendy Mack and Deanna Banks have written this free e-book as “a gift for leaders who are looking for ways to re-energize and align their people in these tough economic times.” The easy-to-read book is filled with practical tools and approaches. Three main areas focus on understanding and intervening in the layoff cycle, how managers can have a positive impact, and matching your actions to employee emotions.
- The Reflexive Generation: Young Professionals’ Perspective on Work, Career and Gender, from the London Business School. This study examined the needs of the upcoming generation of workers and explores how organizations can best use their strengths and manage them. Don’t let the word “study” be off-putting; this is easy to read, has clear practical recommendations, and clear graphics.
Coming Soon:
You have told me you would like to hear interviews with leaders who share in forthright, real ways how they and their organizations got to where they are, whether that destination be creating a recovery-oriented environment, retention of the best employees, or changing the organizational culture. Watch this space for the Practical Solutions Interview series. Meanwhile, if you have ideas for topics or speakers, drop me an email!
In No Particular Order:
- A great e-book on “Leading from the Middle”
- Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs That All Managers Should Bookmark
- Books: Good to Great, Built to Last. Jim Collins offers research-based information about how the best organizations operate – with simple straightforward strategies that we can apply in our own organizations.
- Marcus Buckingham Books: First Break all the Rules, Now Discover Your Strengths, The One Thing You Need to Know, Go Put Your Strengths to Work, and Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently
- The Gallup Management Journal
- PODCASTS: Check out Business Category on Itunes for titles such as:
- Manager Tools
- Harvard Business IdeaCast
- Project Management Podcast
- Knowledge@Wharton Interviews
- Business Week: The Welch Way
Lee Ann Slayton
President, Slayton Consulting, LLC