More Professional Reading...Online This Time

Even if you don't feel like subscribing to magazines or lugging books home from the library, there are still plenty of opportunities to do some professional reading, keeping up with what's happening in your field and learning more about leadership. You might consider taking a look at some blogs.

We've tried to include some useful websites over on the right side of the screen (and we'll update that list once Blogroll is fully functional again!) but few of those are blogs. One useful resource, for leadership at least, is a list of Top 100 leadership blogs that was put together on a site called Best Universities.

Here are some blogs they recommend that might be of particular use when leading Creatives:

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Center for Leader Development: Foster your budding leadership skills as a student or an adult with the resources provided by this center’s blog.

Extreme Leadership: Learn how to take your leadership to a whole other, more extreme level with tips from Steve Farber.

Unleashing Your Leadership Potential: Blogger and businessman Kevin Eikenberry provides help and insights on unleashing your leadership potential on this site.

Slow Leadership: This blog is all about taking the slow and steady approach to building leadership skills and becoming a great leader.

Survival Leadership: Don’t just be a successful leader, but a significant one. This blog provides loads of leadership development skills.

Mick’s Leadership Blog: Learn how to self-assess, get tips on management and much more from this blog.

The Leadership Blog: Check out this site to find some truly inspirational interviews with business leaders.

The Leadership Evolution: Are you in need of a leadership pick-me-up? This site is dedicated to providing leaders of all kinds with inspirational quotes.

The Recovering Leader: Learn to be more self-aware in your leadership skills with a little help from this blog.

The Practice of Leadership: South African blogger George Ambler shares his journey to better leadership on this site.

Zinger On Strength-Based Leadership: Here you can find advice and guidance on strength-based leadership.

Great Leadership: Blogger Dan McCarthy provides some great insights on leadership development on his blog.

Learn This: Give this blog a visit to learn to boost your productivity, career tips and of course, leadership advice.

Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog: Check out this site to learn more about the latest in leadership and get tips on improving your tips from coach John Agno.


MANAGING OTHERS

Managing Leadership: Learn how to be a great leader at the senior executive level, managing other managers.

Management Craft: here you’ll find some great advice and articles about updating your management skills.

CEO Blog: Jim Estill, CEO of SYNNEX shares his experiences as senior executive and provides some useful management tips.

Leadership Turn: Learn how to lead your employees by doing instead of just talking through this blog focused on helping you build a great leadership style.

Bird’s Eye View: Susan Willet Bird writes this blog that is all about building better communication with employees and customers.

Management by Baseball: Learn some management tips from the great American sport in this blog.

Agile Management Blog: Check out this blog to learn about software, leadership and more from David J. Anderson.

Slacker Manager: Learn to manage better by doing less from this helpful blog.

Management IQ: Business Week maintains this blog that helps managers learn to build their leadership skills and manage smarter.

Management Improvement Blog: Get some advice on numerous ways you can be a better manager and run a better business from blogger John Hunter.

Execupundit: Michael Wade comments on leadership and ethics in this business blog.

Management Skills Blog: Share in the knowledge of Tom Foster in this blog that aims to help managers and business leaders do their jobs better than ever.

Cali and Jody: These authors wrote a book on how work sucks and how you can make it better and share many of their tips on this blog.

The Enlightened Manager: Don’t manage from the dark ages. Instead, take some tips from this blogger on little things you can do to improve your on-the-job performance.

I haven't read all these yet, but I intend to, and you should too, so you can what might be most useful for you. While it would be nice, of course, if you got all your leadership lessons from LeadingCreatives.com, the truth is, you need to broaden your reading. If you feel you don't have time or energy for intensive reading right now, then just get started with these, and as you learn from them, you're liable to start looking for more.