Happy New Year and welcome to the January 2012 edition of the Management Journey Carnival! We’re off to a good start with the first Carnival Edition for this year.  Blog Carnival Business Trends change strategy leadership management motivation organizational productivity survival skills MORE >>

I teach Speech Communication.  One of the subjects we dwell on is “ethnocentrism.”  It is a fancy, academic word, that basically means “I think that my group is better than your group, so I will focus on my group and, in some way or another, think less of your group.”  There are a lot of [.]. MORE >>

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Can leaders be blinded by their own success? You bet…While success is what all leaders strive for, unless you’re prepared to handle it, success can quickly complicate your life. As strange as it may sound, success can often times be the precursor to failure. So Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. MORE >>

** I believe in employees first, but I recently learned a bigger, more important truth. asked an expert on “great places to work” if putting employees first was the secret to creating a great organization. She said, “Not really.” In the past: In, “The Essential Secret to Full Engagement,” I wrote: “Always place the [.]. MORE >>

One reason that we stop and think about the great causes on Martin Luther King Day is that no one has replaced him.  It was his voice that was so strong, and his message could not be ignored.  There is no other Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and so we return to his  words so [.]. Randy's blog entries Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. MORE >>