The end a decade provides a great opportunity for reflection and that’s just what Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog offers this month. The January Leadership Carnival showcases fifty top leadership bloggers in a “Best of 2009” round up. This post includes access to incredibly diverse leadership thinking. Topics include great coaching questions, building employee engagement,…
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People Equation Influencers 2009
Wow, the online HR community has been active lately with lists featuring influential people in the HR Community. Sites like HR Examiner’s Top 25 Digital HR Influencers and Monster’s Top 10 Employment Bloggers lists have set the blogging community afire with cheers, jeers and comments aplenty. Seems everyone loves to hate these lists. . .or is it they hate…
What Matters Now: Seth Godin’s e-book
Thanks to a Twitter post by Mike Myatt, look at the fantastic treasure I just unearthed from Seth Godin: his “What Matters Now” e-book featuring a diverse group of seventy “thinkers” sharing one simple thought per page of the book. The e-book is a free download. Click here to go to the link. It has…
Taking a Break
I was out in the stores early this morning snapping up some after-Christmas sale items. In what appears to be a developing theme with me, I overheard another conversation with Human Resources implications in the store this morning. (Blog series, perhaps? See my other HR eavesdropping observation here.) Overheard: Employee: “Do I really need to…
Sensible Shoes
The other day, I was talking with a fellow blogger. We were discussing the types of blogs that have large readerships in the “human” arena: Human Resources, Learning and Development, Leadership, etc. My friend observed that some of the most popular blogs are those that are “edgy” in some way. That was really good food…