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I enjoyed writing 1/2 of Slacker Manager for the past 15 months. I wrote close to 200 posts at this site.

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5 steps to creating an environment of trustOctober 29

Note: This is a guest post from @Stephen, editor of Business Development in Context and a co-founder of the work.life.creativity forum. You can follow him on Twitter at @hdbb_stephen. This post is inspired by a book I have recently read, Results Through Relationships, by Joe Takash. I highly recommend this book, for managers and those who aspire to become managers.

Moving Toward Collaboration

Collaboration is a hot buzz-word these days with the advent of Web 2.0 and the rise of a host of online sharing tools. There is however, a lack of training in collaboration and team-building in many businesses. With the economy the way it is, it is likely that anything but the most essential training is going to get sidelined or canceled altogether. Thus it is the responsibility of the manager or leader of a team to create an environment where collaboration skills can be learned. This environment must include room for risk-taking and failure, and the leader must be able to endure, if not encourage, failure to happen as rapidly as possible. Finding out what does not work can be mor

Your One Word for Management: David’s Second Last PostOctober 28

The last word on management is yours…

by David Zinger

Reminder: This is the Change Poverty - Two Cent Challenge. Click the penny below to join us:

Here are the responses you gave to the September 23rd request for one word for management.Thank you for your responses. You have the last word in management on Slacker Manager with David Zinger.This is the last management article I am writing for the blog. In two days, On October 30 I will express my thanks and say my farewell.

Here are the people and their word:

Gerald

Management = Details.
Carrie

Stupidity
Devin Willis
Se

How to Communicate Your VisionOctober 22

Note: This is a guest post from @Stephen, editor of Business Development in Context and a co-founder of the work.life.creativity forum. You can follow him on Twitter at @hdbb_stephen.

It is very important for a manager to have a vision of where they want to lead their team. It is even more important to communicate this vision to the rest of the team. In order to successfully communicate your vision, you should be able to address the following four qualities:

1. Your vision must describe the preferred future. This works best if the language is in the present tense, as though you are there, in the future, describing what has already happened.

2. Your vision must be compelling and interesting. For a vision to be compelling, it must express the right amount of connection between the present and the future. You want the people on your team to know the goal of the vision, and to accept the belief that it will make a difference and thus feel empowered and excited to go for it.

3. Your vision must account for the real world. If a vision seems to take no attention to the real world, nor any attention to future trends as we understand them, it will not work. It

What is your favorite non-blog Management or Business Site?October 21

What non-blog business site is in your sight?

by David Zinger

I spend most of my time reading management/leadership blogs. There are a few management or business sites that are not strictly blogs that I also follow.

Do you have a favorite non-blog site you visit for management or business information?

Here are a few of mine:

In the comments please share your favorite non-blog business site. You can write the url or you can also add a sentence or two why you like the site.

Thank you for contributing to great sources on management for Slacker Manager readers.