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Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: February 1, 2010 (Episode 2)
February 1, 2010 – 8:00 am | No Comment
Smart Lemming Rundown Podcast: February 1, 2010 (Episode 2)
 
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This week Lori Grant recommends three business books that help you find your core purpose in life, avoid making mistakes at work that make you look bad to your peers or manager, and learn the unwritten rules at work, giving you the upper hand with peers.

Elephants, Mice, and other Critters in Business Books
October 16, 2009 – 10:30 am | No Comment
Elephants, Mice, and other Critters in Business Books

Was it about using animals to get a business lessons across? I admit that I’m not one to talk, since I use a Smart Lemming as my metaphor for proactively managing our career for success. …

Smart Lemming Diary: 10 Reasons for a Job-to-Person Mismatch
October 12, 2009 – 8:25 am | No Comment
Smart Lemming Diary: 10 Reasons for a Job-to-Person Mismatch

December 28, 2005
Post-Christmas is always a weird time in offices. Fortunately, I have fun projects on my plate such as the corporate website redesign, the channel management function, and a new marketing position. My top …

Smart Lemming Review: The Levity Effect - Why It Pays to Lighten Up by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher
October 8, 2009 – 1:13 pm | No Comment
Smart Lemming Review: The Levity Effect - Why It Pays to Lighten Up by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher

What it is: The Levity Effect – Why It Pays to Lighten Up
What it’s about: The Levity Effect uses science to reveal how of fun and humor in work drives business results. “

Rating: 4 stars
The …

Smart Lemming Diary: Seize the Opportunity to Take on Additional Responsibilities in Your Job
October 8, 2009 – 9:28 am | No Comment
Smart Lemming Diary: Seize the Opportunity to Take on Additional Responsibilities in Your Job

December 23, 2005
Our startup is making progress on several fronts. We may be getting closer to selling off our core business, we’ve signed another deal, I’m making progress on getting another direct report, and my …

Smart Lemming Review: How Did that Happen by Roger Connors and Tom Smith
August 11, 2009 – 11:04 am | No Comment
Smart Lemming Review: How Did that Happen by Roger Connors and Tom Smith

What it is: Roger Connors and Tom Smith’s How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way

What it’s about: New strategies for holding people accountable while building morale.

The Good: Provides managers …

Summer Reading List: Minimalist Lifestyle, Zen at Work, and Your Highest Goal
July 16, 2009 – 11:50 am | No Comment
Summer Reading List: Minimalist Lifestyle, Zen at Work, and Your Highest Goal

What makes a perfect summer read? The author has a strong voice while offering an extraordinary insights. The book should be a quick read that allows you to easily make changes in your life or …

23 Ways to be Happy at Work: #9 - Try something new to get different results
July 13, 2009 – 11:28 am | No Comment
23 Ways to be Happy at Work: #9 - Try something new to get different results

Do you use the same work tools or ways of thinking over and over again only to get stale or uninspired results? One way to be happier at work is to keep learning new things …

Smart Lemming Review: The Carrot Principle - How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance
July 3, 2009 – 5:39 pm | No Comment
Smart Lemming Review: The Carrot Principle - How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance

What it is: Gostick and Elton’s The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance

What it’s about: This updated edition offers invaluable advice for middle managers …

The 8 Deadly Sins of Email
June 25, 2009 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments
The 8 Deadly Sins of Email

I was avoiding Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Home and Officeby David Shipley and Will Schwalbe because this book was “too visible” in the stores when it was first released. I was seeing …

12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #5 Write about the Book that Changed Everything
June 19, 2009 – 12:14 pm | No Comment
12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #5 Write about the Book that Changed Everything

When you think about it, is there a book that you read, read again, and then again?
For me, that one book is Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets by Philip Kotler. …

Smart Lemming Action Items: Think Big Manifesto, Becoming CEO Material, Lessons Learned by Recession-Proof Companies
June 19, 2009 – 10:58 am | One Comment
Smart Lemming Action Items: Think Big Manifesto, Becoming CEO Material, Lessons Learned by Recession-Proof Companies

Smart Lemming Actions Items lists 10 New Book Releases to Proactively Manage Your Career Now.

Smart Lemming Review: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise
June 12, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 3 Comments
Smart Lemming Review: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise

What it is: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise.
What it’s about: Improving results - better, faster, and cheaper - in today’s Knowledge Age
The new book offers people, who are not satisfied with their organizational results, a management …

Smart Lemming Rundown: Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss
June 8, 2009 – 3:24 pm | One Comment
Smart Lemming Rundown: Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss

Martha Finney’s book, Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, offers sound advice for workers, who will go through the sequence of events of facing a layoff, being laid off, and starting a job search after a layoff.

Smart Lemming Rundown: Leadership Agility
June 5, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
Smart Lemming Rundown: Leadership Agility

Background
Leadership Agility is a classic read for knowledge workers, managing their careers up the corporate ladder. Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Bill Joiner and …