From the Independent Business Blogs: 2/13/19

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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 Rebecca Elvy, Steve Keating, Kevin Eikenberry, Art Petty, and Ken Downer.

From Rebecca Elvy: No-one Likes a Know-It-All

“I confess, I am a recovering ‘know-it-all’. I am clever and well-educated, and I used to believe that my strength came from having all the answers.”

From Steve Keating: The Unashamed Misfit

“Most people want to fit in. I suppose it’s even more accurate to say most people need to fit in. All things being equal I would prefer to ‘fit in.’ But all things are seldom equal and I don’t need to fit in so badly that I’ll sacrifice my core values and principles to do it.”

From Kevin Eikenberry: The Trouble with Comparisons

“We all do it. We see someone doing something that we value – and doing it very well. If we want to be better at what they are doing, at first it makes sense to look at them and compare ourselves. Comparisons like this rarely help. In fact, they can be quite damaging to our development and our psyche. Unless we do it right.”

From Art Petty: Fear the Conversations You’re Not Having

“Challenging management and performance conversations regularly run off the rails. They are often muddled, mixed-up, and monumentally massacred. Nonetheless, at least people are attempting to talk about the tough topics—even if things occasionally go cattywampus (look it up!) with them. The conversations I genuinely worry about are the ones that aren’t taking place. As a leader, just thinking about what’s not getting talked about ]should scare the daylights out of you.”

From Ken Downer: Learning to Fly: Innovation, Risk, and Leadership in the Real World

“Most of us have probably heard of the Wright Brothers and their invention of the airplane. But did you know that one of their earlier flights featured a canoe strapped to the bottom of their flying machine? Why would such a thing be necessary, and what does their example tell us about what it takes to innovate, manage risk, and lead?”

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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