From the Independent Business Blogs: 10/29/14

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Independent business blogs are blogs that aren’t supported by an organization like a magazine, newspaper, company, or business school. Those people provide lots of great content, but they don’t need any additional exposure. In this post, every week, I bring you posts of quality from excellent bloggers that don’t get as much publicity.

This week, I’m pointing you to posts from Kate Nasser on preventing the negative effects of being positive, Karin Hurt on encouraging the lazy, Mary Jo Asmus on your automatic self, Chris Edmonds on a culture audit, and Steve Roesler on your unspoken contract.

From Kate Nasser: 5 Ways to Prevent the Negative Effects of Being Positive

“Is your positive attitude helping yourself and others? It often can. Yet, have you ever met someone who overlooks empathy and drives their positive attitude on others?”

From Karin Hurt: How to Encourage the Lazy and Disengaged

“How can you encourage the lazy and disengaged? The short answer… roller skates, or their metaphorical equivalent. Stay with me as we flashback in time.”

From Mary Jo Asmus: Your automatic self vs. your aware self

“Perhaps these seem like insignificant behaviors, but as organizational leaders, they had become barriers to effectiveness and were keeping these leaders from making the kind of impact they were capable of. Their behaviors had become automatic habits – something we all have that are difficult for most of us to change.”

From Chris Edmonds: Culture Audit

“What metrics to you scrutinize frequently? If you’re like most leaders, you pay attention to performance metrics – quotas, service ratings, market share, profits, and the like. What you probably don’t have metrics for – but you need metrics for – is the quality of your team or company’s culture.”

From Steve Roesler: What Is In Your Unspoken Contract?

“When 300 technical professionals at a major utility were told to re-apply for jobs in their department as part of a major reorganization, they were livid.”

That’s it for this week’s selections from independent business blogs. If you liked this piece you may enjoy my regular post on “Leadership Reading to Start Your Week” points you to choice articles from the business schools, the business press and major consulting firms about strategy, innovation, women and the workplace, and work now and in the future. Highlights from the last issue include deciding of your leadership style is influencing bad behaviour, a fork in the digital road, warfare, software, and industrial design, whether queen bees are real, and defining critical thinking.

Independent business blogs are blogs that aren’t supported by an organization like a magazine, newspaper, company, or business school. Those people provide lots of great content, but they don’t need any additional exposure. In this post, every week, I bring you posts of quality from excellent bloggers that don’t get as much publicity.

This week, I’m pointing you to posts from Kate Nasser on preventing the negative effects of being positive, Karin Hurt on encouraging the lazy, Mary Jo Asmus on your automatic self, Chris Edmonds on a culture audit, and Steve Roesler on your unspoken contract.

From Kate Nasser: 5 Ways to Prevent the Negative Effects of Being Positive
“Is your positive attitude helping yourself and others? It often can. Yet, have you ever met someone who overlooks empathy and drives their positive attitude on others?”

From Karin Hurt: How to Encourage the Lazy and Disengaged
“How can you encourage the lazy and disengaged? The short answer… roller skates, or their metaphorical equivalent. Stay with me as we flashback in time.”

From Mary Jo Asmus: Your automatic self vs. your aware self
“Perhaps these seem like insignificant behaviors, but as organizational leaders, they had become barriers to effectiveness and were keeping these leaders from making the kind of impact they were capable of. Their behaviors had become automatic habits – something we all have that are difficult for most of us to change.”

From Chris Edmonds: Culture Audit
“What metrics to you scrutinize frequently? If you’re like most leaders, you pay attention to performance metrics – quotas, service ratings, market share, profits, and the like. What you probably don’t have metrics for – but you need metrics for – is the quality of your team or company’s culture.”

From Steve Roesler: What Is In Your Unspoken Contract?
“When 300 technical professionals at a major utility were told to re-apply for jobs in their department as part of a major reorganization, they were livid.”

That’s it for this week’s selections from independent business blogs. If you liked this piece you may enjoy my regular post on “Leadership Reading to Start Your Week” points you to choice articles from the business schools, the business press and major consulting firms about strategy, innovation, women and the workplace, and work now and in the future. Highlights from the last issue include deciding of your leadership style is influencing bad behaviour, a fork in the digital road, warfare, software, and industrial design, whether queen bees are real, and defining critical thinking.

Independent business blogs are blogs that aren’t supported by an organization like a magazine, newspaper, company, or business school. Those people provide lots of great content, but they don’t need any additional exposure. In this post, every week, I bring you posts of quality from excellent bloggers that don’t get as much publicity.

This week, I’m pointing you to posts from Kate Nasser on preventing the negative effects of being positive, Karin Hurt on encouraging the lazy, Mary Jo Asmus on your automatic self, Chris Edmonds on a culture audit, and Steve Roesler on your unspoken contract.

From Kate Nasser: 5 Ways to Prevent the Negative Effects of Being Positive
“Is your positive attitude helping yourself and others? It often can. Yet, have you ever met someone who overlooks empathy and drives their positive attitude on others?”

From Karin Hurt: How to Encourage the Lazy and Disengaged
“How can you encourage the lazy and disengaged? The short answer… roller skates, or their metaphorical equivalent. Stay with me as we flashback in time.”

From Mary Jo Asmus: Your automatic self vs. your aware self
“Perhaps these seem like insignificant behaviors, but as organizational leaders, they had become barriers to effectiveness and were keeping these leaders from making the kind of impact they were capable of. Their behaviors had become automatic habits – something we all have that are difficult for most of us to change.”

From Chris Edmonds: Culture Audit
“What metrics to you scrutinize frequently? If you’re like most leaders, you pay attention to performance metrics – quotas, service ratings, market share, profits, and the like. What you probably don’t have metrics for – but you need metrics for – is the quality of your team or company’s culture.”

From Steve Roesler: What Is In Your Unspoken Contract?
“When 300 technical professionals at a major utility were told to re-apply for jobs in their department as part of a major reorganization, they were livid.”

That’s it for this week’s selections from independent business blogs. If you liked this piece you may enjoy my regular post on “Leadership Reading to Start Your Week” points you to choice articles from the business schools, the business press and major consulting firms about strategy, innovation, women and the workplace, and work now and in the future. Highlights from the last issue include deciding of your leadership style is influencing bad behaviour, a fork in the digital road, warfare, software, and industrial design, whether queen bees are real, and defining critical thinking.

How I Select Posts for this Midweek Review

The five posts I select to share in my Midweek Review of the Independent Business Blogs are picked from a regular review of about sixty blogs I check daily and an additional twenty-five or so that I check occasionally. Here’s how I select the posts you see in this review.

They must be published within the previous week.

They must support the purpose of the blog: to help leaders at all levels do a better job and lead a better life.

They must be from an independent business blog.

As a general rule, I only select posts that stand on their own, no selections from a series.

Also as a general rule, I do not select posts that are either a book review or a book report.

I reserve the right to make exceptions to the above.

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karin hurt   |   29 Oct 2014   |   Reply

Thanks so much. What a great collection.