Blogs About "management"

This post originally appears in my Work In Progress blog for Forbes.com:

 

Hiring in 2011 was stronger than previous years, and the uptick has continued in 2012. This is no secret to your staff, who have endured low or no salary increases and a higher workload. The fact that job market reports are positive, coupled with the frustration and exhaustion of recent years, makes this a ripe opportunity for your staff to...

 

For my Thanksgiving blog I am giving thanks for entrepreneurs’ endeavors to create something tangible and great starting from mere ideas.  Many compelling stories about well-known, highly regarded companies—Zappos, Southwest, Chipotle, CarMax, and Apple, to name a few—center on the opportunities, complexities and risks inherent in entrepreneurship.  These ventures navigated the hurdles of early stage company and capital formation, scaled up, achieved exceptional customer and brand loyalty.  Their narratives bring to...

 

 

 

Once you become really serious about your business – meaning you choose a partner, decide to raise capital, go live to “real” customers, pretty much anything that involves putting you or your assets at risk – you should consider forming a company.  It will cost you a few dollars, but, it is the first step in protecting yourself against personal liability in connection with running your...

 

We all have them and very few of us act upon them.  There are many reasons why not.  Money, time and lack of faith in ourselves are just a few.  Today, however, there is lots of help available to take you from step A to step B.  Some examples: Openinvo.com (a matching service for idea generators and idea seekers); incubator services for start-ups some examples...

Last summer, I attended a four month Emerging Leadership Program within my company that was designed to prepare and train project managers and supervisors for their enhanced roles and responsibilities. In our first session, the facilitators spent a significant portion of the class discussing the differences between leading versus managing, and introduced a concept called "servant leadership". I have to admit I had never heard of the term before, but I...

I love Seth Godin. Why? It's the Talerman Curve (yes, 85 Broads own Elizabeth Talerman of Nucleus Branding), it's his new fabulous, personally meaningful book Linchpin and right NOW, it's his February 6 posting: The relentless search for "tell me what to do"

A brief, focused post, capturing a frustration I've had for months. Seth observes:

If you've ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.

People are just...

A blog is only a blog if it involves entering into a dialog, if others have the ability to comment and for ideas to spark and continue the conversation. I posted "Why Sex Matters" and Bain & Company asked if they could respond. Here it is (and I thank them very much for taking the time to reply):

Kelly, as a co-author of Bain & Company’s ‘Gender Parity in the...