I have now written 100 blog posts since I started blogging in June 2008. My blog have had more than 6000 visitors during these 10 months of blogging. Here you will find a recap of my blogging history. I have been looking over all my material and sorted out 41 posts that I find to be the most important reading on my blog. The order here is random. Some is quite good, some is frequently read; some has vanished in the internet wasteland, published when my blog had few readers, so I brush of some dust and bring you a list worth looking at. I hope this will help you to easier find interesting reading on my blog. Enjoy and thank you for visiting and reading here at Never Mind the Manager.

For leaders

A perfect bed of roses is made by the one willing to remove the weed.
I have been working at the same department for nine months after writing this post. And looking back, this is maybe not true anymore? I heard about a business manager that had to fire a person for the first time in 21 years today. Either he do not see how hopeless his employees are, or he have done a great job in recruiting or people manage to quit before he could fire them? I have learned lately that the recruitment prosess might be more important than I thought earlier. Can I than make a garden where there won’t be any weed in the first place? This is an interesting reflections for today.

Change by role play
This is a good advice for management out there. I have tried it and it works like a charm.

Bored? Challenge everything.
Do not accept boredom and status quo at work. Always search for excellence.

Do you know the cost of employee turnover
During my first 100 blog post, this is one of the most visited, with most hits from search engines. Employee turnover seems to be a very interesting topic, and yes I understand why.

Equal pay is it really fair?
I do not think so. A post for all out there that treat everybody equal.

Lift me up, how to motivate an employee
It is all about motivation. This post goes out to all leaders out there. Here I bring you a tool that works always.

Top 10 leadership blogs
I hope my blog get included in a top ten list one day  In the meanwhile read and follow these great blogs to broaden your horizons.

For employees

The Customer also known as your co-worker
This post is about caring about your fellow co-workers. It is a post about appreciation of the people around you.

12 easy steps to become a great employee
This is one of my most popular post ever, this is a 12 post series about how you could become a great employee. Step 9 is written by Steven Roesler from Allthingsworkplace.com

How to stay positive when your company sucks
It is all about the mind, and positive thinking. You will also get 12 small tips about what to do to improve the situation.

How to evolve to the next level, the evolution of an employee
At what lever are we at any given time? How do we identify the levels? And how do we get to the next one?

Are you a give or a taker?
This is a post that all people that have a job should read. I do believe someone might learn from it.

So you just got your first job huh?
This post is for all employees attending their very first job, or maybe some work life veterans would benefit from this as well?

About motivation

The True Motivation
This is a post close to my heart about motivation, and what I believe it is all about. It has disappeared a bit, and is not one of my mostly visited posts. I think this one deserve more reading.

Motivation is more than a pep talk.
Have you heard of my mogine? That is the motivation engine. This is also a post I really like, but that have not gotten the attention it deserves. Read about the Mogine.

10 steps to self motivation
Yet another post about motivation. This one gives you as an employee or a leader 10 good tips how to self motivate.

Tools

Full Throttle Company Efficiency costs
This tool will help you to prove your capacity and to explain what happened when things went wrong.

Coaching tip. Determination and Ability
This post gives you as a leader a great tool to determine which people to focus on and what to do with them.

Green thumb your employees. How to make your employees thrive
I like this post, and it gives you as a leader a great tool once you learn how to handle it. Learn how to read a person in minutes.

Advice

Define your service goals
By defining you service goal, you will end up with a tool that is very valuable for yourself. This is a great advice I opt you to follow.

Great customer care does not need to be for free
This post shows that customer care is about exceeding expectations.

Reading a lot
An advice worth repeating, I have read 14 books about leadership since this post was published. Keep reading books!

Why don’t you just change
This is a post written in frustration over employees that do not seem to learn.

How to use a post-it the right way
This is by far the most popular post on my blog. Other blogs have been writing about it, including CC Holland on BNet.com, the publicity from other blogs about this post, have driven my blog to new heights

Goals and Focus

How to deal with high workloads – Focus on good results even when times are tough.
I never got an answer to my question: Do you have any good tactics for turning defeats into victory, please share by commenting!

Four keys to success, do you want to win.
I started writing this post after reading about a live experiment on this topic, very interesting. And I think this is a great post, telling you why some succeed and some fail.

Why you should focus on results
Here I share one of our success recipes from work.

Other posts

Lift the Spirit
Reading this post again is fun, it is 10 months since I wrote it, and a lot have changed. A survey at my department proves that the average job happiness has increased. I wrote 8.19 in this post. Today the average is 9.7. The invoice department has moved back to us, as the whole floor shares the same winner philosophy. We are still having fun! – This post gets to my top 10 list most for sentimental reasons.

Red hot passion
Isn’t it always about passion? In retrospective I have been including my employees a lot when it comes to find task they are passionate about. Unfortunately there is still no library at my office.

Do young people work today?
A post where you get to know my background and read about my frustration about work morale.

Mood, and aggressive virus raging the environment around you.
This post has gotten little attention, and I would love more feedback on what other people do.

How to self evaluate and improve
I live by this, and it is important to stop and evaluate your own progress from time to time.

Why do you want a promotion in the first place?
Open your horizon. In this blog post I am writing about goals, and how to set the right goals.

Work life and balance.
An interesting story that developed due to me listening to a German getting orders to slow down when working here in Norway.

My leadership vision
This one is mostly for myself, as it is a map to what I want to become and who I want to be. Do you have a vision for yourself?

Why you should always stay positive
I have always been optimistic and positive. I am a strong believer in the positive energy.

Understanding
Understanding is an interesting word. What is “understanding”? You will also learn how my wife spends here waking hours.

Born to be great
I have to include this post in this list, mostly because of the Youtube clip of a friend of mine from my home town. If you love guitars – this is the only post you need to read at my blog.

I am a believer, I believe in you
My wife thinks this one is wicked. She thinks it could recruit me to become a cult leader. No worries, I will stick to the normal business life in the future as well.

Does a great leader have to be liked?
This post is written just for fun, and have no scientific value at all, I was just so amused thinking about it, and I had to share it. I think this is my absolute favorite. I just hope no one takes it seriously.

Never mind the troll – How to tune your head right.
Dr Rao Srikumar is a great influence on my life, this post is very influenced by his theories.

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