I know it is tax deadline day. But it’s Sunday so they probably are giving you until tomorrow to file since the mail isn’t running today. (Don’t hold me to that, though. I filed a while back because I’d overpaid and wanted my money back quickly.)
Anyway I was just poking around my feed reader this morning and there is so much great stuff out there you oughtta see. For example,
- Blog Business Summit shares how Listening to the Demands of Online Communities Can Bring Profit. Don’t make the mistake Viacom is making. Find out if folks are talking about your business on line. Then join the conversation!
- Robert Hruzek at Middle Zone Musings shares a life lesson with a dose of humor in Fear of Flying. Be sure to read to the end of that one. His point is one you don’t want to miss.
- Over at Small Business Hub Brian Halligan is comparing the differences in the cable TV and traditional periodical publishing (on dead tree) industries in Let a Million Diggs and Reddits Bloom as a lead in for their new Digg-like service oriented specifically for business folks called Daily Hub. I think the idea has potential.
- Rich G. over at simplerich shares about reading one of my favorite leadership books in Spring Cleaning and Navy Seals?!? I like the book so much I quoted it in my very first post over here at SuccessCREEations, Success Principle #1 – Get Started! (I think somehow exclamation points are required when referencing that book.
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Grab yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy!
I have to agree about the exclamation points. I suspect it’s because I feel like shouting “HOORAH!” after reading parts of Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals. It just makes sense. It’s applicable, and it points out to me things I’ve grown accustomed to working around and I don’t even notice any more… and not great things either.
Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals is certainly a book I wish I’d found sooner.
It’s true that SEALS have that Hoorah! Bruce Willis, Charlie Sheen image, Rick.
But most of the one’s I’ve met have been very low key for the most part. You’d never guess they were very dangerous men unless you first saw them geared up.
Glad you found the book. It’s a good one.
Chris and Rich,
The part that Rich quotes is especially important in the business world. So many people get too busy to manage and just react. By doind so they loose their credibility. Finding the right person for the job is, as the book points out, crucial. I think it takes a conscious decision to put plans in place.
Chris, you mentioned this in another post — about hurricanes and making contingency plans. You think through what might be coming, and put contingency plans in place. A good manager should do the same, and not just for emergencies. Then, when those situations come, the manager will know what to do without having to do too much thinking. The manager will know who to call because the situation has already been dealt with, to some degree, in the manager’s mind.
Tariq, I was in a situation with a volunteer organization a while back which had a leader sorta along those lines. I honestly tried to help. For a fairly long time.
But in the end I got so frustrated I had to back away and leave it to others. It just didn’t work for me to be working for a leader like that.
Chris,
I’d have the same reaction.