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- Tips for Telecommuters
- Slacker Manager has a weak post on telecommuting, 8 Tips on How to Work From Home: 28 Years of Experience, by David Zinger . It's really more like eight thoughts. Only two seem like tips to me -- the rest are observations or benefits based...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Are You Sabotaging Your Employees?
- Slacker Manager has linked to a survey on whether people are given 'strength-training' at work; that is, are trained to improve their strengths and use them more often. The answer appears to be a resounding no. I say "appears" because the data seems based...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Management Sins: Fatal or Foibles?
- Slacker Manager puts a management spin on the Seven Deadly Sins -- pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth. It's more forced than funny. But here's a wise one on the sins of project management . I found 'stubborness" particularly honest, and that...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- How to Rise Above Office Politics
- Is your workplace immune to office politics? That’s unlikely, since wherever there are personalities there’s potential for problems. Here are some approaches that can help you rise above the fray. by CC Holland
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- A Changing of the Guard at Slacker Manager
- Since I started blogging about productivity, leadership, teamwork, and management, I've enjoyed reading Slacker Manager ("Paving the path of least resistance, so you don't trip and fall"). Sadly, David Zinger -- one of the dynamic duo who, along with Phil Gerbyshak, has provided the lion's share of...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
Additional Resources
- When in Rome: Travel Tips for the Globe Trotting Manager
- The Find: Sometimes the success of an international deal depends just as much on how you handle your vodka as on the content of the contract, so the Economist has rounded up practical etiquette tips to help managers headed to Moscow and other cities make the right impression....
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- 3 Simple Rules for Giving Feedback
- Leadership expert Dan Erwin passed along some great advice on Slacker Manager the other day about how to give effective feedback. According to him, giving feedback is phenomenally difficult for most managers: "There are a lot of reasons why you don't get useful feedback. Your boss...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- 3 Simple Rules for Giving Feedback
- Leadership expert Dan Erwin passed along some great advice on Slacker Manager the other day about how to give effective feedback. According to him, giving feedback is phenomenally difficult for most managers: "There are a lot of reasons why you don't get useful feedback. Your boss...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Record Your Greatness
- Next time you're up for a performance review, Slacker Manager reminds you to bring along a folder chock-full of praise for you and your work. Sure, you have to fill the folder up yourself, but it's a great way to remind bosses, clients, and even yourself that you're a good...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Following the Links: 10 Ways to Make it Great
- There was a new link to Big Think this a.m., and I followed it and found a new review of 10 Ways to Make It Great by Phil Gerbyshak, who also writes a couple of blogs (on Slacker Manager this morning, the message is welcome to February -- have you...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- The A to Z of Employee Engagement
- Are your troops tired? Are your workers weary? Is burnout brewing? A new, free e-book courtesy of Slacker Manager promises to give you over 300 ideas to boost employee engagement. Some of the suggestions are on-target, while others seem like stretches designed to fit the cutesy A...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- 10 Ways to Make Office Slacker Pull His Weight
- Layoffs, buyouts and hiring freezes have left employees in many workplaces picking up the slack of former colleagues, writes Hanah Cho in the Chicago Tribune. But if those left don't all shoulder their burdens appropriately, resentment can grow and productivity can decline. If you're a manager, it...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Try a Little Courtesy and Kindness in the Office
- I've been thinking a lot about courtesy lately. That's partly due to my ongoing efforts to teach my 4-year-old son to say "Please," "Thank you," and "Excuse me" and to observe other social niceties. But part of it is from observing the world around me. Maybe I'm...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?
- What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?RE: What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?Why not offer large sums of money for the nastiest story then you could contribute directly to your own subject? By its wording and positioning your request is an invitation to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- BNET Readers Share Their Ethical Lapses
- Last week we asked BNET readers to share their ethical lapses and what they learned them. To our surprise, several folks were offended by the very nature of the question, as if we thought ethical lapses were something to be glorified. Writes jwood: What were you thinking? Having your...
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- EXIT POLL: Placebo at Brixton Academy
- MARK GLENISTER MANAGER, 31 We were stood at the front at the beginning and the bass was too loud. There's something about them, and he's a very enigmatic lead singer. There is something not very wholesome about them. I think they're very sleazy. Which...
- Research articles 2000-11-05
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