Become A Better Manager: 10 Inspirational Management And Leadership Blogs

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Become A Better Manager: 10 Inspirational Management And Leadership Blogs

by Warren Rutherford on April 23rd, 2012
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As a management and executive coach I spend a good amount of time helping folks understand the “little” things that are necessary to lead and manage a workforce to be more productive and profitable. I thought I would share some resources by drawing on outstanding “expert” advice in related leadership and management blogs that have been recently posted.

For People to Trust You, Reveal Your Intentions - by practicing 3 ways you can reveal your intentions as a leader and a manager to your employees and customers and get better results. Linda Hill & Kent Lineback, HBR Blog Network

Can You Evolve From Control Freak to Emotionally Intelligent Leader? - This post discusses what the budding entrepreneur needs to do (and know) as his/her business experiences employee, market, and revenue growth stages. If it applies to someone you know, pass this one along! Christopher Hann, Entrepreneur

Forsaking Investment Banking to Turn Around a Family Business - is a light-hearted story about a young investment banker going “nuts” to help his family business turnaround, by focusing on customer service, internet sales, and common sense management practices. We may be in different industries but the life lessons resonate. Ian Mount, The New York Times

Restoring Your Ability to Choose – has several posts. It’s the first one that set me straight, particularly the twelve Power of Pause practices. These are now part of my coaching (and business) practice. Sounds like a great book to read as well. LeadingBlog

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - This quote, attributed to Henri Bergson, is the last of 6 suggestions to brainstorm and bring some fresh life to your business perspective. My favorite from this post is # 4, “If at first you don’t succeed…give up?” What will become your favorites? Jürgen Wolff, Management Issues

How to Lead Yourself When the Boss is Not Around - In this post Dan lists 10 practices that managers who are not actively being managed can use to “manage themselves better.” My personal favorite is # 2, have an ownership mindset. How often are you in situations where these might come in handy? Dan McCarthy, Great Leadership

The One Leadership Secret That Will Never Involve A Mobile Device (or Any Computer) - The need for personal communication is addressed in this post in a compelling manner. It’s nice to see that the “face to face conversation” is valued by others in leadership positions. Terry Starbucker

Leadership: It’s the Softer Side That Counts – it’s hard to find fault with the CEO of Korn/Ferry International in his assessment of what makes a leader effective. Consider what “aligning, motivating, and empowering others” to make decisions can do in your company. Gary Burnison, Great Leadership

Over-thinking Challenging Situations - reviews the benefits (and dangers) of over analyzing situations and encounters, advising instead to seek the open mind approach as a leader and look for the positive in each situation. David Peck, The Recovering Leader

If you think that’s what we want, why don’t you give it to us? – Seth Godin deserves a place in this listing for a variety of reasons, but for now we need a whimsical read into his short piece on marketing strategy. Enjoy. Seth Godin’s Blog.

There is a wealth of online information available on leadership and management practices. Let me know who some of your favorite scribes are and we can share with others. Hope these help to inspire and engage you with your employees, customers, and company in the days and weeks ahead.

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Category: Leadership, Self- development

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The Author: Warren Rutherford

Warren runs The Executive Suite, providing leadership coaching & leader as coach training, professional recruitment, One Page Business Plans, and human resources consulting services to businesses. Located in Hyannis, MA Warren is expert at understanding, developing, and improving business communications and emphasizes developing alignment between ownership, management, employees, and customers. He serves as the Director of Coaching Programs for Innermetrix, Inc. He is accredited in a variety of assessment and coaching methods. He is an ardent advocate of innovation, creativity, and inspirational change in business in life. http://www.theexecutivesuite.com

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http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

Hi Warren, this is a great list with so much great information. Some of these blogs I was already aware of but many of these I’ve never read before, so thanks for the introduction.
Christina Giliberti

A great pick here Warren. Glad to see Seth Godwin in there and will make sure I read that entry!
Debi Harper

Thank you Warren, these are blogs I never would have come across,looking forward to reading them all. I love this quote To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
http://www.smartsolutions.ie/blog/ Elaine Rogers

What a comprehensive list Warren – thank you for sharing – I look forward to reading some of them over the coming weeks.
warrenrutherford

You are all welcome. It’s fun doing the research and learning from others.
http://www.garybembridge.com/ Gary Bembridge

Thanks for the list! Been working through reading them. Can I be bold and add a posting on this site that I did that got a lot of positive action about 5 things that make a great manager and leader that may also add to the discussion: http://tweakyourbiz.com/management/2012/04/09/5-things-the-best-boss-i-ever-had-taught-me-about-being-a-great-manager-and-leader/
warrenrutherford

Gary – absolutely. The more interaction the better. As you know there is a lot of advice available. Reading through the different material helps us to understand better what resonates best – so share on.
http://www.talentinnovations.com/s24/360-Feedback.html Talent Innovations

Thanks for gathering all these posts about effective/better management/leadership. We need more leaders. “Bosses” are seriously outdated specially in this day and age where technology has afforded opportunities to even the most average of joes. We ALL need to learn to be leaders.
http://www.thesteelmethod.com/ Waldo

Good work Warren!. I appreciate the blog on:
How to Lead Yourself When the Boss is Not Around
It gives me an idea on how to practice maturity and being trustworthy at work.
John Twohig

Super post Niall, well worth the time it took to read it. The key words make a lot of sense but it is some thing I have not done much of up to now. I will address that after reading this post.
Christina Giliberti

Hi Niall,

Never underestimate research. I work with hundreds of businesses who know their businesses so well that they believe that research isn’t needed. They fire off keywords that they know, BUT after conducting research, not all of these keywords are used in searches.

In my experience, the reasons are:

In-house terms
technical (industry) terms
Terms that ‘stuck’ from day one

This thing is – online evolves daily. It’s reactive to trending stimuli and so, from one month to the next – searches change.

Love the idea of evergreen content. Overly-trending posts can fizzle out quickly.
http://www.facebook.com/elish.bulgodley Elish Bul-Godley

Thank you for that concise reminder on a sustainable approach to blogging. It struck me that evergreen articles also stand a good chance of being relevant globally. They may solve a a perennial problem, a common denominator amongst business people everywhere. Also pertinent that you mention Keeping a Blog Alive through updates, with the impending saturation of the blogosphere and proliferation of short snappy posts that do little to add value functioning as mere advertorial in some places.
http://www.smartsolutions.ie/blog/ Elaine Rogers

A very helpful post,
thank you Niall. It’s such a constant learning curve – whoever said the interent was easy? It’s easy to find things, but not as easy to be found.
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

The trick is to start to think like a the customer, user or reader that you are looking to engage!
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

Great point Elish and of course you are very very right!
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

Back in the day, I remember ranking well for a particular search term (which brought a lot of business) without really realizing how I’d achieved it. Upon reflection what had happened was that because I had worked as a sales manager, my language was that of a sales manager and I used that in my copy – where as other trainers were using trainer speak.
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

As I say, John – if you want to write content that gets to readers/customers – It’s critical!
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

lol, yeah writing about social media is not a good evergreen idea!
http://www.bloggertone.com Niall Devitt

Either do I, I can assure you – it’s a learning curve for us all but so long as you understand the value of doing so, you’ll continue to get better at it. Thanks Allen
http://www.smartsolutions.ie/blog/ Elaine Rogers

Losing employees can be a direct consequence of not having your “door open” Communication is essential for employee retention, along with respect, transparency etc.
It’s a sad company that speaks to their employees at entry and exit only. “Inbetween” chats should be mandatory.
Having said that exit interviews are critical for relevant and timely feedback. Organisations can learn a lot from those leaving the company, and they should be in person, I agree.
Good tips Daniel

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