I’m sure there are going to be a few people very upset with me. I frankly don’t care.
I do not like Twitter.
I’ve used it, and I don’t like it, and I’ll tell you why. Because if you’re a manager, and as we like to say, if you’re an executive, which is not as exclusive [...]

Most any manager can manage well, or at least look good managing, when times are good. Retention is as easy as it will ever be, budgets tend to grow to hide lack of controls, and others want to join your team, so hiring is easy too.
But during tough economic times, the professional manager has to [...]

At some point, we are going to do a couple of podcasts, perhaps 10, 20, 30, I don’t know, regarding culture in the workplace. A big part of culture at the workplace is stories we tell one another.
I read a “Harvard Business Review article” a while ago, it may have been over a year ago, [...]

Mark has been re-reading Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive for the billionth time lately. Every time he reads it, something different strikes him. This time he was looking to get some validation that Drucker believed that consensus is overrated (it is), and he stumbled across this gem. It’s two simple sentences, but as [...]

Some of you have probably heard me talk about this before. Email is a scourge on all of us, most days. I see all kinds of email behavior, all the time - at clients, everywhere I go. And the one thing that surprises me the most, and this goes back to some comments I made [...]

In today’s cast, we conclude our conversation on Horstman’s 3rd Law of Interviewing. As always, if you’re new to Manager Tools and haven’t listened to the first part, you may wish to go back and listen to that first.

And the answer really is folks: they don’t work.
When you think about almost any economic system that exists today, there is a buyer and a seller. The seller has something the buyer wants and the buyer expects the seller to give him or her a fair price. There is an inherent negotiation that happens [...]

This cast describes your initial communications with a friend or associate whose career is at risk, for whatever reason.
We read in the Wall Street Journal this week about a bank failure in the US due to the mortgage/debt crisis the markets are facing. As it turns out, we have several Manager Tools members there, [...]

Manager Tools will present a FREE, one day Career Crisis Skills Conference, on 18 October, to help those affected by the financial and credit market troubles.
We will conduct the training/seminar at the Marriott East Side in Manhattan (map, sw corner 49th and Lex), from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
There will be room for 300 attendees [...]

The Audio Blog is going to be a regular installment of Manager Tools. Our intent is to provide you information on about a weekly basis about things that interest us that we find different or amusing or surprising about management that perhaps don’t make a strong enough case to be a podcast, or in many [...]