What Do We Need From You?
If the premise, as described below, resonates with you we'd like you to help us promote it on your blogs beginning Monday when it "goes live."
If you have questions, concerns, input, etc. please share it with the three of us (either using our email addresses (in the cc: line of this message), or send an email to [email protected]).
What’s Never Work Alone all about?
We’ve all been through “trial by fire” management situations, and have faced difficult management and leadership dilemmas at various points in our careers. As active participants in the brain trust on the internet, we also understand the tremendous power of Community.
The goal of Never Work Alone is to provide a community for managers and leaders to share their experiences and challenges, help each other grapple with issues, learn from each other, and advance the state of the art in enlightened leadership.
How Does It Work?
We’re launching a blog and a Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/neverworkalone. Initially, the blog (http://neverworkalone.typepad.com, and soon to be http://www.neverworkalone.com) will be a weekly summary of a situation that’s reflected upon in the Google group.
We’ll solicit situation ideas via this email address: [email protected] Each week we’ll select a situation and post it to the Google group. Group members can offer suggestions for how to handle the situation. Each week we’ll summarize the situation and responses on the blog, crediting the appropriate respondents and including links to their blogs/websites.
Of course, we fully expect that the Google group won’t be used exclusively for going over the situations. We encourage folks to go ahead and post what they’ve got and see what comes back. We’re doing the structured thing so that people with limited time, but who’d like to participate, will know where to focus their energy.
Over time we’re also anticipating that the blog will be a great venue for author interviews, guest bloggers, etc. But for now we’re just focusing on getting the community off the ground.
How Can You Help?
• Promotion – Use your network to increase the awareness that this resource is available.
• Participation – You have valuable experiences and perspectives to share. Increase the value of the resource with your frequent visits and participation.
• Patience – Many aspects of this are experimental, and we are likely to find a few surprises along the way.
• Feedback – Let us know if something isn’t working for you, and share any ideals you may have for improvment.
Please help us spread the word -- and thanks in advance for your support!
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