management
Top 5 resources to learn about business, strategy, entrepreneurship and management
I love learning. I love reading about new techniques, models, or different ways of thinking which challenge the various preconceptions I have.
One ritual I current have is printing out an article and reading it on the commute home on London's tube. While the rest of the smoldering hot traincar are listening to iPods or sleeping, I am reading, highlighting, making sidebar notes and thinking about how the article applies to anything else in my life.
There are many places on the web where you can find free and powerful knowledge on the web. The following are some of my favourite resources for knowledge and thought leadership.
- McKinsey Quarterly - They may be consultants who generally write about issues for large corporations, but these guys definitely know how to write good thought leadership on Marketing, Innovation, Economic Studies, and Technology. Most articles are free, but some articles require a McKinsey subscription (which is still well worth it).
Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management
Apparently, some people have been struggling to find original (and complete) copies of Swanson's controversial Unwritten Rules of Management. (One of the Personal MBA books.) As such, I have included it below.
Sixty years before Raytheon CEO William Swanson published his Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, a UCLA engineering professor, published a book called The Unwritten Laws of Engineering. More than half of the rules in Swanson's book were completely plagiarized.
Putting those facts aside, the information provided is still chalk full of management goodness.
- Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be used often.
How many times have you been in meeting with someone who felt compelled to contribute even though her or she obviously did not know what to say? Silence is golden in these circumstances
