management hack

Magic Manager List

Management expert (and a dear friend of mine) Rosa Say has an amazingly powerful tool for all managers, called the Magic Manager’s List. Here’s how you do it. First, take 1 piece of regular...

Marketing Your Team: Moving from Helpless to Helpful

One of the biggest reasons I’ve been a successful manager is because I have successfully marketed my team to the rest of the organization as a helpful team full of professionals who excel at what...

Keeping it Real, even when it sucks

On a recent post about 5 skills for hiring, frequent reader and commenter Chain Smoking Blue Monkey had the following comment that really challenged my thinking: In defense of “Mopey...

Be Specific When Praising: Fast Feedback Tip

Wondering why your praise isn’t getting results? Take this quick quiz. Quick quiz: Does your feedback sound like this: You’re doing a great job Joe! Keep it up! Or this: Thanks for...

You are Your Only Competition

As a manager, I have weekly reviews with each member of my team. We talk about 3 things:What’s gone well (and how can we do more of that) What needs improvement (and how can we improve...

Good Management by Quotation

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” - Paul Hawken I don’t know...

Deliverables of Great Managers: Engaged Employees

Jack Hayhow shared his Four Deliverables of Great Leadership: 1. Amazingly Engaged Employees 2. Evangelical Customers 3. Consistently Solid Financials 4. Growth (Revenue, Profit, Capability) Jack...

6 word management philosophy

Jodee Bock challenged David and I to share our 6 word philosophy on life, leadership, and management, so here’s my 6 little words: Sharing and learning, achieving greatness together!  Of...

MAP Your Way to Successful Management

This is a guest article from Miki Saxon of Leadership Turn Phil and David offer great info here at Slacker Manager, but to make the most of it you may need to change your MAP (mindset, attitude,...

The First 100 Days (redux)

A few years back, the previous writer at Slacker Manager took on a new job, and shared a really cool tool: a single page, strategic agenda for the first 100 days on the job. You can read Bren’s...