Manager Tools - Development Challenge 2006 January 21, 2006
As indicated in the previous post, I’ve been doing some catching up in my management reading, and in this case, listening.
Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne run a podcast each week at www.manager-tools.com, covering various management development topics, such as delivering feedback, recruitment, performance reviews, and management communications.
About two weeks ago (I said I was catching up!), they released a podcast with a slightly different type of content - a set of potential challenges for managers to undertake over the next year. As I was listening to it, I was making notes, and I took those notes as a mindmap, as I am wont to do. Looking at it afterwards, I decided that I wanted to keep it for reference (as opposed to the practice of taking notes to help keep my attention focussed), so I spent ten minutes with MindManager, and the results of that are below.
If you click the image below, you’ll get a high-res picture of the map. But you’ll be selling yourself short.
If you actually have MindManager, or their free viewer, you can download the actual map from the link below. When you do that, you’ll see that, apart from being able to zoom around and filter the map, I’ve also put in hyperlinks to relevant parts of their website, books they recommend in the podcast, and so forth.
(To those that know about it - yes, I’m aware of the method to embed the map and viewer into the webpage. That causes issues with the site template that I’m currently using, however).
Download the Manager Tools Development Challenge MindMap here.
(Disclaimer/Acknowledgement - all content on the MindMap is from the Manager Tools podcast, and is the work of Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne; all copyright is theirs and acknowleged. The content on this page merely represents my notes of their presentation).
Still Figuring Out The Balance
Nine days since my last “real” post… Figuring out the balance between writing for here, and doing “real” work, and, I must confess, enjoying the “social aspects” of life - well, that’s a balance that I haven’t quite figured out yet.
In any event, I’m sat here writing again, and I’ve got a couple of things lined up — those of you that left comments asking for copies of the ITIL map, I have a version that’s better than what I previously alluded to, ready to send out. I’ll be taking care of that shortly. Finishing off that set of maps, and publishing them, will be part of what I work on in the next few days. First, of course, I have to write the final, “tie it all together” piece about Getting Things Done with a Blackberry. That’s coming…
I’ve also got two of the podcasts from the Manager Tools website “mapped out” on paper, and partially in Mindjet MindManager; I’ll be uploading those, and commenting on the topic and site, as well.
Guess I’d better get typing!