November 29, 2006 Speedlinking

• Be Excellent gives us the Gallup 12 Elements of Great Managing
• Soichiro Honda on Enjoyment and Innovation on metacool. From the article - “Many business thinkers write about managing innovation, as if innovation were a thing. But innovation is ultimately the expression of a set of behaviors originating in the individual.”
• Management Skills points out an interesting way to keep your Meetings from Bombing. Just like Soichiro Honda’s premise above, the key is to not try to create a fake experience.
• 10 Ways to Keep Your Most Talented People, an open letter to CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CFOs across the corporate world from Escape from Cubicle Nation