Here's my midweek look at the business blogs. This week I'm pointing you to the latest editions of carnivals and posts about why traditional job interviews don't work, communicating with co-workers, decision making, business blogging, and delegation.

Let's start with a look at two carnivals.

Small Business Essentials hosts the latest edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

Ask a Manager hosts the most recent Carnival of Human Resources.

From Fast Company: Why Traditional Job Interviews Don't Work
"Traditional job interviews are flawed. Instead of evaluating interviewees on the skills and abilities they need to succeed in the job, they focus on softball questions the responses to which interviewees often memorize. As a result, you get canned answers; responses that have been rehearsed over and over again. If you’re looking for actors who can memorize lines, that’s great. But if you want to know if he or she can do the job, you’re going to have to look beyond traditional interviews. In response, corporate recruiters increasingly tell me they prefer to use more of an organic approach that allows the interview to ebb and flow more like a conversation instead of an interrogation."

From HR Thoughts: Concerned? Tell Them.
"Do you have a staff member or employee who looks a little stressed? Do you have a staff member or employee who looks a bit stretched too thin? Do you have a staff member or employee who seems to have lost their spark? Do you have a staff member or employee who you are concerned about? Tell them."

From Leadership Turn: Why Some Decisions are Harder
"While some decisions are easy (what to eat for supper) many more are extremely hard. Usually, a hard decision involves greater consequences/implications or, in some cases, a higher level of resource commitment."

From Management Craft: Blogs - a business or a person?
"I was out of town last week and did not read any of the blogs in my aggregator. Now that I am back in Seattle, I see that Bren, from Slacker Manager has sold his blog and is recruiting new writers for Slacker Manager. Bren is a great guy and I congratulate him on his success and will miss his voice in the business blogosphere. That said, this news brings up two questions for me."

From Managing Leadership: Delegation - not dereliction
"Just as many managers fail to successfully make the transition from general management to executive management, because of the sometimes disorienting difference in the way you have to view how you get “your” work done, many people fail to make the transition from line employee to general management. Delegation is a core skill defining the difference. The truth is, if you are unable to delegate, you are really just an employee with a raise in pay – you are not a manager. However, that doesn’t mean that inasmuch as delegation is at the heart of managerial work, that managers generally do it well – even at the highest executive levels. But most can learn to do it better, and without the world-shattering fear that many of them really do feel when they take the leap."

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