Anyone that wants to go into a career in any type of business and wish to advance to a management opportunity need to understand the fundamentals of management and this is what the following blogs will provide you. The blogs below cover various management topics from building leadership skills, making use of technology to make your job easier, getting results from your team to increasing your own business creativity. Many of blogs were created by top CEO’s and others in the management field.
Blogs for building strong Leadership Skills
To be in management you must have strong leadership skills in order to build up team motivation and a sense of guidance. Below you will find a set of blogs by those that are leaders and CEO of their own companies and they provide tips and insight on how to handle a leadership role in your career.
- Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog
Wally Bock’s blog provides information on how to handle some of the top leadership issues that are currently flooding the workplace in even the top companies.
- Say Leadership Coaching
This blog offers managers and other leader’s advice for mentoring, training and coaching the people on their team to build a better, stronger working relationship.
- Management Craft
Being a good manager is an art and this blog by leadership trainer Lisa Haneberg, is here to offer advice, tip and techniques.
- Leadership Now
Michael McKinney’s blogs holds on to the belief that everyone is a leader in their own way. It is all about tapping into their inner leader and he lets helps you understand how to do it.
- Leader Values
This blog aims to help managers and those in the leadership roles get organized and provide a hub for managers to network with other managers.
- Extreme Leadership
This blog was created to help build strong leadership qualities. Steve Farber shares his thoughts and ideas on building and maintaining leadership skills.
- Dispatches from the New World of Work
Tom Peters owner of a top consulting service provided this blog so others can see into the world of management and become a great leader.
- CEO Blog – Time Leadership
This blogs provides it readers tip and techniques on the key to business success from CEO Jim Estill, of SYNNEX Canada.
Blogs for Women in Management
Once thought to be a career dominated by men, women are beginning to make a huge impact on the management field. The following blogs below are by women in management. They offer tips and insight on how to have and maintain a successful career in management.
- Wonder Branding
More useful information for women in marketing and other management fields through this blog created by Michele Miller’s.
- Women's Leadership Exchange Blog
This blog by Leslie Grossman provides news updates and political views on business basics focused on women.
- The Wild WE
This blog provides fun and entertaining blog centered around women in business.
- The Power of the Purse
Fara Warner’s blog provides insight on how many companies are able to cater to women.
- Learned on Women
This blog provides researched information on female consumers and the tactics you can use to bring them into your business.
- Boomer Women Marketing
Mary Brown, is a founder of Imago Creative a successful marketing firm in the United States. Join her as she shares her thoughts on creative branding.
Blogs about Getting the Best Results
A part of management is being able to engage your employees in producing better results. The following blogs below will provide insight, tips and techniques on how you can increase productivity and the desired results you are looking for.
- Steve Yastrow
Join Steve as he helps you with reinventing the way a company interacts with their customers and connect with them on a deeper level.
- Bob Sutton
Bob Sutton, a professor at Stanford University's School of Engineering, created this blog to help you build on your management skills.
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- PyroMarketing
Sharing his advice, Greg Stielstra provides tips and techniques on becoming a master in marketing.
- Bird's Eye View
Join Susan Bird on how to engage your new and existing employees and maintain better working results from them.
- Made to Stick
This is a blog based on a book about communicating with those around you and introduces new ideas that you can stick with.
- Fred Reichheld
Fred’s blog is all about making your business better through the loyalties held by your customers and your employees.
- KR Connect
This is Kevin Roberts CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi blog where he provides insight on how he effectively manages well over 7,000 employees in 83 countries.
- Cali and Jody
Results-Only Work Environment, or ROWE, was created by Cali and Jody. This site helps you build a new relationship between you and those that will help you get your work done.
- Management by Baseball
What does management and baseball have in common? Join Jim Gilliam and find out how it all works.
Technology in the Management Field Blogs
A big part of being in the management field is being able to stay updated on the technology that can make you and your employee’s job much easier. The blogs below provide updates, tips and techniques on how you can incorporate technology into your career.
- TomBomb.com
Join blogger and businessman Tom Hayes about the importance of your viral business and how it all works to benefit you and your company.
- The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
This blog provides a variety of online strategies as well as tips and advice to effectively communicate which is a key to becoming a great leader.
- Pause
Join this blog by Jory Des Jardins, who works with several businesses to develop and build their communication strategy.
- MarketingProfs Daily Fix
If you are looking to build your business, find out from these professors on how using social media and other tools to successfully market your business and services.
- Marketing with Technology and More
Jordan Ayan, CEO of an email-marketing service, provides her readers with tips on marketing making use of technology.
- Listen Up
John Porcaro's provides information about marketing, PR, management and even an inside view of his personal life.
- Daniel H. Pink
Businessman and author Dan Pinks, blogs about the relationship between technology and business in the workplace.
- Biz Stone
Want to know how to build a business based on great management skills? Then find out how from the creative director and co-founder of one of the largest social networking websites, Twitter.
Blogs that Build Leadership through Self-Awareness
Maintaining a level of self-awareness is a top requirement and skill that makes a successful manager. If you are unable to be aware of your actions and how to handle various situation in the workplace how would you be able to manage others? These following blogs will help by providing examples in leadership, tips and advice.
- Zinger On Strength-Based Leadership
A blog that gives information on strength based leadership and how to apply it to your own business and personal life.
- Timothy Coote
Timothy works for a company in France but he provides his insight into management and leadership in English.
- Leadership Unleashed
This blog provides a variety of behavior modification practices that will help you change your approach to being a successful leader on the inside.
- The Practice of Leadership
A blog that provides how-to guides on how to be a successful leader and is also filled with inspiring quotations.
- The Leadership Evolution
This blog offers the readers examples on how to be an effective leader and suggested reading list on leadership and management.
- Helping Successful Leaders Become Even Better
The co-founder of a network of executive coaches provides insight into how to make a successful leader even more successful.
- Lead on Purpose
This blog was created to offer a place for other managers to discuss their organizations and information on being a leader.
- BrainCram
The Brain Cram blog helps to indulge the mine and soul with ways to help you understand yourself better than you does now to build a strong leader.
- Bigger Isn't Always Better
A blog that passes on some words of wisdom to those looking to build a career in management and advice derived from the book written by Bo Tomasko “ Bigger isn’t always better”.
Blogs that are made to Inspire and Boost creativity
Those that are looking for a successful career in management need to have a strong sense of creativity and the ability to inspire those around them. The following blogs offer tips, techniques and creative solutions to inspire your employees, team members and even your customers.
- Stephen Shapiro: Changing the Rules of Innovation and Creativity...
Steve shares his approach creativity, critical thinking and creating goals.
- Springwise
Springwise offers a wealth of information and ideas for new entrepreneurs.
- Simplicity
The author of this blog offers tips and management techniques. This blog is a must read for those entering into the management field.
- Orrin Woodward Leadership Team
Orrin discusses the idea making process and find out how Orrin built a leadership team.
- Life Beyond Code
Some of the topics covered in this blog include business models, inspiring your own creativity and innovation.
- Liderlik/Leadership
This blog is offered in both English and in German so that both can enjoy the information provided about leadership.
- Leading Answers
This blog offers the foundation of leadership and project management ideas and leadership resources.
- Crossderry Blog
This blog will provide you with an interesting view on leadership and how to know which direction to go in your creativity.
- A Budding Contrapreneur
This blog by Matthew K. Ing discusses coming up with new ideas and why some ideas fail and why some work.
- Slacker Manager
This blogs keeps its readers interested in the information it wishes to share by providing pictures, tips and entertaining lists.
Managing people can be a difficult job and can require a lot of patience. Learning to deal with people in a fair and honest manner is very important, and your job can depend on that in many cases. When you are a manager of anything there will come many times when you have to make tough decisions, and the most important thing is you are responsible to make sure everything gets done properly.
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