Managing Leadership^®

I would like to take this opportunity, as the year draws to a close, to share with you some of the sources I found myself reading regularly over the past twelve months. I think that their authors’ creative and cogent thinking, combined with their often concise and always engaging expression, makes them essential reading for those of us involved in the profession of management.

Please do bookmark this page, return to it whenever you have a few moments, and work your way through the list (and please note that it is in alphabetical – not ranked – order), Click through to each site, and add the ones you find effective to your “Daily Reading” folder (make one if you haven’t already) in the Favorites or Bookmarks menu in your browser. Better yet, subscribe to them by email or via an RSS reader.

You will find your new year – and your daily work – marked by additional insight that adds both value and enjoyment to your professional activities. Enjoy!

• Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects, by Eric D. Brown: Ramblings on alignment, technology, strategy, and more.
• All Things Workplace, by Steve Roesler: Teaching smart people practical ways to become extraordinary.
• Chaos Scenario: bringing Order to a new age of marketing. This is a deservedly popular site for marketers (but all of you will do well to read it!), written by genuine experts in the field: Cam Beck, Paul Herring, and John Herrington.
• The Delaware Employment Law Blog, authored by Molly DiBianca. This site brings a disciplined but delightfully insightful perspective to a surprisingly wide range of topics of great interest to all managers.
• Education Innovation, by Robert Jacobs: A Different Angle of Approach to Education. Another unique venue for the practice of management that can offer all of us valuable lessons.
• Employee Engagement Zingers: David Zinger on Authentic Engagement, Leadership & Results.
• Execupundit.com, by Michael Wade: Commentary on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life.
• Get Me Jamie Notter, by Jamie Notter: His current thinking about organizations, leadership, and human dynamics.
• Great Leadership: Opinions and information on leadership and leadership development by Dan McCarthy. At once strongly-positioned and open-minded, Dan mixes it up and makes you think.
• KnowHR, by Frank Roche and Sarah Chambers. This site brilliantly covers another specialty that all of you generalists – and specialists from other areas – ought to be sure you are familiar with.
• The Happy Burro, by Joe Raasch: maximizing organizational performance.
• The Word on Employment Law with John Phillips. Another must-read, with a creative, eclectic, and always interesting approach for introducing this vital perspective productively into the thinking of the rest of us.
• Three Star Leadership Blog, by Wally Bock: Leadership Issues for North American Business Leaders. Please don’t let that last bit stop you – I know that those of you who visit and subscribe here from all around the world will be pleased to add this site to your regular reading.

I hope – and am confident – that you will enjoy discovering the really excellent and valuable thinking offered on these sites. And please don’t hesitate to let me know of any additional ones you would like me to pass along.

See you tomorrow!

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