“Management portal explaining 250+ methods, models and theories on strategy, performance management, finance, valuation, change, corporate governance, communication, marketing, leadership and responsibility. Value Based Management.”

“We’re in a bubble again. It’s not as frothy as last time, but hallelujah, this time we know what to do, right? One good thing about the dotcom implosion in 2000 is that we got lots of practice laying people off, and I’m afraid that this valuable knowledge may get lost.”

“Don’t have time to read Steven Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? Take a look at our summary articles written by Michael Gray.”

“Back in February, I asked the question ‘Who is the worst person you worked for?’ If you print out the responses in a smallish font, you end up with 27 pages full of some of the worst possible management situations. I’ve read those 27 pages several times and it’s now time to turn the tables and get inside the heads of these horrible managers to figure out what makes them tick. Before I start, I’ve got one ground rule. You can’t be actively hating your manager when you read this.”

“Ok, maybe ‘interrogate’ is a little strong. Ask questions. Ask questions! Not just the obvious ones, but probing questions about what’s going on in your and his world. Among the simplest and most revealing questions to ask: How am I doing? What should I be doing differently? What’s going on in your (the boss’s) world right now? Your boss probably has interesting thoughts already formulated about all of these things but will not even think to share unless asked.”

“Yi-Tan means conversations about change. On Monday, May 14th, [XPLANE founder and CEO Dave Gray] will join Jerry Michalski on his weekly Yi-Tan call to discuss how visual thinking is changing the way interact and communicate. The topic: how to build shared visual meaning inside a company. We’ll discuss…”

“Decisions are at the heart of leader success, and at times there are critical moments when they can be difficult, perplexing, and nerve-racking. However, the boldest decisions are the safest. This source provides useful and practical guidance for making efficient and effective decisions in both public and private life.”

“The following individuals were profiled in the book 10 Simple Secrets of the World’s Greatest Business Communicators, by Carmine Gallo. Our slide show features contemporary business execs considered among the top speakers in Corporate America. These men and women have leveraged their powerful communications skills to build such companies as General Electric, Starbucks, and Apple.”

“I was on a panel this week with some really good VCs and several equally high quality entrepreneurs. The topic was managing a Board and we covered a bunch of important topics. One subject that came up was communicating with your board and investors. One of the entrepreneurs said that she had been advised to send a weekly status email to her board and investors and she cringed when she thought of that.”

“Great leaders are few and far between. This has nothing to do with genetics. Rather, most people just don’t know how to be leaders. The good news is that it’s relatively easy to learn to be a leader. You can start with these 8 beginner’s errors that can sabotage your efforts as a leader.”

“The following is a letter I submitted this morning to USA Today in response to [an article] they ran a few days ago.” (Thanks kotttke,org!)

“Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation — but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.”

“Most organizations claim they value creative, innovative people; yet many operate in ways guaranteed to limit, block or destroy whatever creativity their people have. The culprit is the fashionable, hard-driving, ‘results are all that matters’ style of leadership. Here’s how–and why–it happens.”

“Who is your ideal boss? I firmly believe that a good boss is one of the factors shaping your decision on whether to accept a job offer… Sometimes this factor is the only decisive factor in making such a decision especially if you have worked with the boss in the past and he ‘proved’ himself as a trusted lead and ‘demonstrated’ understanding and care.”

“Today I moderated a very good panel at a conference, and while this experience is fresh in my mind, I want to explain how to kick butt on a panel. At any given conference, there are about three keynote speakers and twenty five panelists, so the odds are much higher that you’ll be a panelist than a keynote speaker. Thus, I hope this entry appeals to a broader audience. Superficially, a panel looks easy. There are four or five other people on it–all of whom you think you’re smarter than–and it only lasts sixty minutes. How hard could it be? Herein lies the problem: everyone thinks a panel is easy so they don’t take it seriously.”