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International Association of Businesses recommends these management blogs for the TOP 10 Management blogs for 2010.  Management is a continual learning process that occurs in a multitude of categories.  For our purposes, we are looking at the TOP 10 Manangement Blogs which include the following 8 sub categories:

LEADERSHIP
CREATIVITY & INSPIRATION
SELF AWARENESS
DEVELOPMENT, MARKETING & FINANCE
USING TECHNOLOGY
GETTING RESULTS
BRANDING
WOMEN

Leadership

1. CEO Blog — Time Leadership: Jim Estill, CEO of SYNNEX Canada, talks about how you, too, can meet business success.
2. Dispatches from the New World of Work: Tom Peters heads a consulting services company. His personal motto: “The starting point of all significant change is mindset.”
3. Extreme Leadership: Have you heard of extreme sports? Well, now there are extreme leaders, too. Steve Farber heads up Extreme Leaders Inc., a business-development company, and he also shares his thoughts on his site.
4. Leading Blog — Building a Community of Leaders: Michael McKinney thinks that everyone is a leader. Find out how to tap into your potential with his musings about learning, creativity and communication.
5. Leadership Turn: “Leaders DO — and it’s your turn,” according to this site solely based on leadership and management.
6. Management Craft: Management is an art, according to Lisa Haneberg, a professional management and leadership trainer, coach, and organization-development consultant.
7. LeaderValues: LeaderValues aims to help leaders in all kinds of organizations and provide a meeting place for emerging trailblazers.
8. Slow Leadership: The title of this blog is legitimate: Postings are aimed at truly developing a leader through mindset and behavior change.
9. Say Leadership Coaching: This Polynesian-themed blog offers mentoring, coaching and training advice to managers and leaders.
10. Wally Bock’s Three Star Leadership Blog: Wally Bock’s very easy-to-scan site dishes up regular doses of information on leadership issues for North American business leaders.

Creativity and Inspiration

1. A Budding Contrapreneur: This snappy new blog by Matthew K. Ing talks about ideas and why some fail.
2. Liderlik/Leadership: Both English and German readers can check this blog to become inspired.
3. Life Beyond Code: Categories on this blog cover business models, distinguishing yourself and innovation.
4. Stephen Shapiro: Changing the Rules of Innovation and Creativity…: Steve shares his “unconventional approach on business innovation, creativity, goals, performance and critical thinking.”
5. Simplicity: The author of “Simplicity Is the Key” offers tips and tidbits on management, such as “Staff at the front line know all the answers. All the time.”
6. Springwise: Springwise offers a wellspring of ideas for entrepreneurs.
7. Orrin Woodward Leadership Team: Orrin discusses “ideas of consequence.”
8. Leading Answers: This blog offers leadership and agile project-management ideas, observations and resources.
9. Crossderry Blog: You’ll learn how to see “the forest for the trees” and take “the correct fork before heading into the woods” on this site.
10. Creative Energy Officer: Recharge weekly with “ideas and insights for optimistic, yet cynical humans.”
    

Self-Awareness 

1. The Leadership Evolution: This site offers quotes, examples and information from books on leadership.
2. BrainCram: Brain Cram inundates your mind and soul with lengthy posts on you and your work.
3. Timothy Coote: Timothy Coote works for a French company but gives you his views in English.
4. Lead on Purpose: This site fosters discussions on being a leader in your organization.
5. The Recovering Leader: Another behavior-modification approach to building your inner leader can be found at this blog.
6. Marshall Goldsmith Blog: The co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners LLC, a network of top-level executive coaches, wants to help “successful leaders get even better.”
7. The Practice of Leadership: How-tos and inspiring quotes fill this blog.
8. Zinger On Strength-Based Leadership:“Strength-based leadership applies strengths, caring and energy in the service of engagement. Powerful leaders transform energy into engagement leading to improved results.”
9. Seth Godin’s BLog: The best-selling author, entrepreneur and “agent of change” gives you personal insights on the leadership landscape.
10. 800-CEO-READ Blog: Do what the blog says and read up on the latest on business books, authors and the publishing industry.

Development, Marketing and Finance 

1. Kent Blumberg: Learn leadership, strategy and performance tips at this site.
2. Pink Slip: Maureen Rogers wants to make sure that you don’t get the pink slip and offers advice on business lessons learned the hard way.
3. Ed Batista: Executive coach and change-management consultant Ed Batista wants to tell you how to become the best possible leader.
4. Business Pundit: Learn how to cope when your venture fails, the six traits of idiot bosses and other useful leadership information.
5. Sanders Says: “Sanders Says is an advice Weblog about business, culture and spirit.”
6. Managing Leadership: Stay on your toes with this blog “designed to help busy directors and executives understand how leadership really works in their organizations.
7. Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog: Get daily doses of leadership development advice on the go.
8. SustainableWork: Novices can get tips for innovation, startups and emerging enterprises, while established leaders can get know-how on developing sustainable new products and services.
9. Signal vs. Noise: This blog discusses design, business, experience, simplicity, the Web, culture and more.
10. apbLIFESUCCESS Blog: Positive posts permeate this site.

Using Technology 

1. Web Worker Daily: The site amasses advice for using the Web for work..
2. Biz Stone: The co-founder and creative director of Twitter ruminates on social media and business.
3. Scobleizer: Known as a “technical evangelist,” Robert Scoble can help you discover the newest ways of communicating with customers.
4. Marketing with Technology and More: Jordan Ayan, CEO of SubscriberMail LLC, an email-marketing service, offers tips on marketing using technology and email marketing.
5. The Business Blog at Intuitive.com: These online strategies and communication tips are applicable to leadership.
6. TomBomb.com: Tom Hayes is the bomb at discussing viral business.
7. MarketingProfs Daily Fix: These professors will tell you how to market your business using social-media, Web 2.0 and other tools.
8. Daniel H. Pink: Businessman, author and lecturer Dan Pink blogs about business and technology in the new workplace.
9. Listen Up: John Porcaro’s unofficial blog about marketing, public relations, the Xbox, management and personal life.
10. Pause: Personal anecdotes pepper this blog by Jory Des Jardins, a media consultant who works with businesses and media companies to develop communications strategies.

Getting Results 

1. Steve Yastrow: Reinvent the way your company connects with customers through Yastrow’s know-how.
2. Bob Sutton: Gear up to get better results with the professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.
3. PyroMarketing: Greg Stielstra, author of “PyroMarketing: The Four Step Strategy to Ignite Customer Evangelists and Keep Them For Life,” shares his marketing mastery on his blog.
4. Bird’s Eye View: Learn how to better engage employees and get results with this blog by Susan W. Bird, an author and expert on leadership.
5. ManagementIQ: BusinessWeek writers Diane Brady, Michelle Conlin and Jena McGregor gather insights from the business thinkers and critique the latest management trends to help you manage smarter.
6. Fred Reichheld: Fred Reichheld blogs about bettering your business through customer, employee and partner loyalty.
7. Cali and Jody: Cali and Jody created ROWE — Results-Only Work Environment — to reinvent the relationship between employers and the people who get the work done.
8. Made to Stick: Another blog based on a book, this one is about communicating ideas that will sink in.
9. KR Connect: Kevin Roberts serves as the CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world’s leading creative organizations, which employs more than 7,000 people in 83 countries. Translation: He knows his stuff.
10. Play the Game of Life: Columbia University Business School graduate and world traveler Ryan Petersen shares his thoughts on business.

Branding 

1. The Engaging Brand Blog: Employee-management tips permeate this blog by Anna Farmery, speaker and social-media coach.
2. Influxinsights: “The goal of Influx is to provide ideas for brands that help connect them to culture and allow them to thrive” by “using a combination of skill sets: Account planning, anthropology, trend forecasting and creativity, Influx helps create future pathways for brands.”
3. Hog Blog: Action, insight and inspiration will make you happy that you checked out these musings from a speaker, author and branding expert on radical innovation.
4. MartinLindstrom.com: Martin Lindstrom, who founded his own advertising agency at the age of 12, is a branding guru who imparts knowledge on transforming marketing strategies into positive business results.
5. Name Wire: Experts with experience at Pillsbury, Kraft Foods Inc., Pizza Hut inc. and other companies blog about brand development and strategy.
6. The Simmons SOM Library Blog: This blog is for the Simmons College School of Management community and is maintained by the school’s librarians.
7. Frontline Leadership TRENDS: Get leadership tips, lessons and ideas.
8. Personal Branding Blog: Learn how to not abandon your brand but instead see it through from conception to completion and beyond.
9. What’s Your Brand Mantra?: Jennifer Rice blogs about brand strategy, integrated marketing communications and customer research.
10. Metacool: Marketer, engineer and educator Diego Rodriguez wants to inspire your innovation.

Women  

1. The Power of the Purse: Fara Warner finesses on how companies can cater to “the world’s most important consumers”— women.
2. The Wild WE: This fun blog targets businesswomen.
3. WonderBranding: More useful information on marketing to women appears on Michele Miller’s blog.
4. Great Leadership: Opinions on information on leadership and leadership development by Dan McCarthy, manager of leadership and management development at an undisclosed Fortune 500 company.
5. Learned on Women: This blog researches female customers to help your business target them.
6. Boomer Women Marketing: Mary Brown, president and founder of Imago Creative — the only marketing firm in the U.S. specializes exclusively in marketing to baby boomer women — shares her beliefs about creative branding relying on human connections.
7. Rethink Pink: News about marketing to women can be found at this blog.
8. Women’s Leadership Exchange Blog: Leslie Grossman threads news and politics with business basics for women.

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