Here are some blog posts that caught my attention at mid-week. I'm pointing you to the Carnival of the Capitalists, the Carnival of Human Resources, and the Carnival of Leadership Development, as well as a new Business Week blog called "Management IQ." There are also pointers to posts on where to look when performance breaks down, time off, an interesting take on trust, and David Maister's recipe for success.

Let's start with the Carnivals.

Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World hosts that latest edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

Gautam Ghosh hosts the most recent Carnival of Human Resources.

The most recent Carnival of Leadership Development is at MableandHarry.

Thanks to Bob Sutton for pointing me to a new Business Week blog called Management IQ. They describe the blog this way. 'BusinessWeek writers Diane Brady, Michelle Conlin and Jena McGregor synthesize insights from the brightest business thinkers, critique the latest management trends, and comment on leaders in the news.' It's worth checking out and maybe adding to your regular list.

From Fast Company: Leading Ideas: Where to Look When Performance Breaks Down
"What passes as 'communication' in most organizations is nothing more than people talking AT each other."

From Fortify Your Oasis: Finding more time for ... what exactly?
"When I was in college and then entering the workforce, she [Rowan's grandmother] used to talk of a gentler time, when people savoured their leisure and outsourced all the mundane tasks they could afford to. Apparently, it was not unusual in 1930s Ireland for a comfortable middle class family to have a maid, someone who would cook part time, and certainly a gardener/handyman to do all the heavy lifting, again on a part-time basis. Gran, who was a very astute woman, pointed out that she noticed lots of people in the 1990s were paying people to do those mundane tasks - so they could go out and work more. Something awry with that model methinks."

For a nice companion piece, see "Be Still. You Can't Be Engaged All the Time" at Steve Roesler's All Things Workplace.

From HR Thoughts: A New Take on Trust
"What do managers do? That's a pretty broad question so let's take me for an example. I am a manager, what do I do? Well, when my daughter asked me that very question a few months ago, I started to think and came up with this, an example of my typical day.  But that is not the whole story."

From David Maister: A Summation of What I've Learned
"It's no coincidence that the title of this blog is Passion, People and Principles. I believe that possessing all three is the recipe for success."

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