I read this fascinating/provoking/infuriating article the other day about how Middle Managers (that’s you and me, brethren and sistren) are blocking the implementation of Enterprise Wide, Web 2.0 innovations in companies.  Read the article here
Now, since this is a pretty enlighted group of people, I guess my question is- are you blocking these implementations and [...]

Twice in this week I have ( or will be) interviewed by other people.
First, Nan Russell at Work Matters has an internet talk show, and your humble servant is this week’s guest.
Take a listen to it here.
Then Eric Pennington, who was our guest on Episode 138 turns the tables. On Friday at 12:30 Eastern Time [...]

Folks, I’ve been asked to host a webinar in association with Dimdim entitled: The Freedom to Manage: Guerilla Managing Remote Teams.
When: June 26th, 11am Eastern time (US) 4PM (GMT)
How to register: visit www.dimdim.com and look for “Featured Meetings”
No dial-in necessary, just headphones or speakers for your computer
Oh yeah… it’s FREE to keep the budget weasels [...]

The ubiquitous and ever-peppy Phil Gerbyshak has posted a really terrific interview with Dan Roam, maybe the hottest author in the business world right now. If you’ve heard the buzz about The Back Of The Napkin-Solving Problems and Selling Ideas With Pictures (and if you haven’t, you will) you’ll want to check out the interview [...]

One of the cool things in the blogosphere is the “Carnival of HR” which happens twice a month or so. The best HR-focused bloggers get together and submit their best articles of the last few weeks. It’s a great way to catch up on a lot of reading wtihout tracking upwards of 20 bloggers.
Well, the [...]

Hey folks, I’m sure you remember Nick McCormick (If you don’t here’s the link to his show). Well he just celebrated his 100th blog post, and to celebrate the milestone, he’s giving away a free copy of “Lead Well and Prosper” (the book that put Joe and Wanda on the map) to 5 random guests [...]

I have a bad case of mental poison ivy… an idea stuck in my head that I need to scratch and know I shouldn’t. If I give in and scratch it, i’m going to be on the mailing list for every glorified chainletter going (under the fancy name of memes) and if I don’t scratch [...]

Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy is someone I’ve been meaning to have on the show for a long time, and it will happen soon (probably mid-May). His new book is out, “Straight Talk For Success- Common Sense Ideas That Won’t Let You Down” and he obviously wants you to buy it. But here’s the [...]

I’ve gotten several emails over the last few days telling me that the RSS feed they use to subscribe to the Cranky Middle Manager is down. I know…and I’m writing this to let you know there’s been a problem with theTPN servers…. only problem is that you probably won’t know this post is up with [...]

I will be speaking at the College of Dupage’s “Dupage Executive’s Network” meeting on April 29th on the topic of “While You Were Out- Blogs, podcasts, and other ways the world has changed……”.
The full details can be found here, but basically it’s
April 29th
College of Dupage  425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137  and the link [...]