Light Blogging This Week

Have you noticed it's a bit quiet here at Management Craft this week? I have been traveling and have a writing deadline and so have been chunking on other tasks.

Next week will be more active, but in the mean time, here are a couple wee thoughts.

I was reading the latest Leader to Leader magazine on the plan and found this article to be very good:

Be Careful What You Reward- You Might Get It by Bob Nelson and Dean Spitzer. It's all about how we inadvertently reward what we don't want and then we get it. Pick up a copy of Leader to Leader for this article alone.

Unfortunately you cannot read this article on line. But you can read this one: No Excuses Leadership by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which is also good.

1800CEOREAD posts about the best books for small workplaces.

My pal, Seattle based Futurist Glen Hiemstra has some exciting stuff going on. Here's a snippet from the announcement on his blog (which if you don't already read, you should consider - it's great stuff):

Leading futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard today announced the launch of a web-based video series called Future Talks. Future Talks, produced by Doug Kaye (founder of the Conversations Network), debuts today on the Media Conversations channel with two long-form, in-depth videos that feature each futurist individually. They are interviewed by Mobile Entertainment Forum Chairman Emeritus and renowned music industry figure Ralph Simon. The first regular episode with Leonhard, Hiemstra and Simon, entitled “Media Megatrends”, will be available next week, on October 16, 2007. Interested viewers can subscribe via RSS and receive both the video and the audio-only versions, for free.

And Finally, I find these two posts (and all the great comments) that refer two my dress code post very interesting and at times funny. Anyone else up for the white robe idea? I think they were called tupas:

From Eric Brown
From Phil Gerbyshak

Comments

[Phil Gerbyshak]

A white robe at work would be great fun Lisa. Count me in :) That'll be great after I lose my job for wearing nylons with a neck tie. :)

[Reg Adkins]

Isn't most work attire a costume anyway?