Blogs have information. Blogs offer opinions. Blogs provide insight and interaction. I read lots of business blogs. Here's my pick of five excellent posts from this week, as well a link to the current Carnival of the Capitalists.

This week I'm pointing you to posts about virtual teams, leading people and managing stuff, time savers, bosses and bottlenecks, and the "real world" as we know it.

Reasoned Audacity hosts the latest edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

From All Things Workplace: Virtual Teams, Real Relationships & Organizational Reality
"People who read blogs are, for the most part, relaxed about the technology surrounding them and their related social networking platforms. But how about the manager who sees the need for connecting a global workforce without physically bringing them together?"

From Disorganizational Behavior: Don't Manage, Lead Them
"I don't believe it is really possible to manage a person, the only thing you can do is structure and direct their tasks and influence their behavior. When people talk about management, it isn't about the people, but about the tasks, objectives and roles that people play in organizations. You can't manage a person, but you can affect their outcomes by defining and organizing their tasks and roles."

From Execpundit: Ten Time-Savers
Michael Wade, as is typical for him, comes up with a very atypical list of time savers. Read it and think.

From Managing Leadership: The instinct to control: bosses and bottlenecks
"If you’ve worked in an organization of any size, you know that it’s not just the boss you have to worry about – there are control issues spread all throughout the place, like mines. Sometimes you can only learn where they are by setting them off."

From Signal vs. Noise: Who wants to live in The Real World?
"The Real World must be a truly depressing place to live. It’s apparently a realm where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. I’m told that the only thing that works in The Real World is what its inhabitants already know and already do. No matter how flawed or inefficient that way may be."

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