Recently I asked you 3 simple questions about Slacker Manager. As promised, here are the unedited results, with a few conclusions I drew at the end of the survey. 1. Do you ever talk about Slacker Manager? 13 readers don’t talk about Slacker Manager, 15 readers don’t ever talk about Slac...

Note from Phil: This is an excerpt from one of my favorite books of all time, Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath. This excerpt discusses how to UNstick an idea. Later this week I’ll be giving away a copy of this book to one lucky reader, so please read on to get a sneak peak of this remarkab...

In 5 Ways to Deal with Slacker Co-Workers, I got some very interesting and insightful comments. I encourage you to read the post and look for ways to deal with those slackers you work with. But today, I got a new comment, with a question that I felt was worth answering, and seeing what all the smart...

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! It’s hard for me to believe it, but I’ve been Making It Great! as a blogger since March 4, 2005. I started out with a blogger blog, then because of David St. Lawrence poking me and telling me I needed to be a “real blogger� an...

It’s my pleasure today to be the post 2 post virtual book tour stop for Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten, authors of the wonderful resource guide, er book, The 100 Best Business Books of All-Time . The premise of this book is simple: find the 100 best business books of all-time, fit them into 12 ca...

I love this video. It’s so simple. People holding up a poster of a book cover. And yet think about how powerful it is… 100 people, who aren’t getting paid, talking about 1 product. WOW! How can you make your idea as spreadable as David Meerman Scott did with his new book World Wide...

All I’m going to say is, you need to sign up for this free e-course! No catch, no strings attached, just put in your name and e-mail, and get 10 ways to supercharge your life. it’s not from me, but from someone who ALWAYS inspires me to kick ass in my life, Pam Thomas. You can read about why she...

One question I get asked all the time is: “How can I get promoted?” As a manager, you’d think I would know the answer to this question, and after thinking about how I’ve gotten as far as I am, I am ready to share with you how to get promoted. How to Get Promoted: Guaranteed o...

Alison Green of Ask a Manager shares 6 ways to fire someone: 1) A firing should almost never come as a surprise 2) Be compassionate 3) Be direct 4) Don’t misrepresent the reason for the firing 5) Keep the conversation relatively short 6) Know you’re going to be emotionally drained afterwards I w...

John Blumberg shared a shocking statistic: 7% of employees leave their managers because they didn’t say good morning. How hard is it to say “Good Morning� to the people that report to you? Must be harder than I thought, as 7% of managers don’t say it often enough to their employees. Being th...