From the Independent Business Blogs: 1/10/18

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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 by David Grossman, David Dye, Lolly Daskal, Miki Saxon, and Mary Jo Asmus.

From David Grossman: 5 Tips to Define Your Business Strategy – Literally

“Making sure everyone is literally on the same page in understanding the strategy is harder than it seems. Help define your strategy with these 5 tips.”

From David Dye: 5 Ways Leaders Can Focus When Everything Is Important

“Once you’ve made peace with the reality of infinite need, finite me, it’s time to get crystal clear about your M.I.T. or Most Important Thing. In your work, what are the one to three most important strategic objectives you and your team can achieve?”

From Lolly Daskal: All Successful Leaders Need This Quality to be Effective

“When you’re in a leadership position, sometimes those around you will shield you from reality. They may not want to tell you about a problem because they are afraid of being blamed. They won’t tell you something isn’t working because they feel intimidated about second-guessing you. They may protect you from unpleasant truths out of misplaced loyalty or because they don’t want to deal with your response. Instead of telling you what you need to know, they may complain behind your back, remain quiet rather than disagree with you, or maybe just leave altogether to avoid confrontation.”

From Miki Saxon: Managers are Blowing It

“This is one of the worst stats about managers I’ve come across recently.”

From Mary Jo Asmus: Make this year the beginning of closer work relationships

“Gather up your courage and do something other leaders aren’t doing at your workplace by setting an intention to unite people through the simple act of showing that you need them. Next, set your sights on those who depend on you for leadership by finding new ways to help them to connect and work together.”

That’s it for this week’s selections from independent business blogs. If you liked this piece you may enjoy my curation posts on this blog. Every Tuesday, “Leaders and Strategies in Real Life” helps you learn about leadership by studying what real leaders do. On Fridays you can wrap up your week with “Weekend Leadership Reading” consisting of choice articles on hot leadership topics culled from the business schools, the business press and major consulting firms.

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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