The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

With all the great posts hitting the Blogosphere this past week on the topics of leadership, talent management, and human resource management, we'd like to point you to five posts (and a bonus pick!) that we consider to be the best of the best for the week of December 8th to December 14th, 2008.

Carmine Coyote, Slow Leadership Blog: What is Quality Leadership - Carmine looks past the Hollywood portrayal of business leaders and examines what quality leaders are really made of.

Wally Bock, Three Star Leadership: Leaders Eat Last - Wally reflects on the leadership lessons he took away from his time serving with the Marine Corps and applies them to these troubling economic times.

Simon Cooper, Brilliant Leadership: Motivating Staff - As a primer to his upcoming Motivation Bite Size series Simon provides four requisite conditions that must be satisfied for employees to be motivated in their work.

Gautam Ghosh's White Spaces: Re-Imagining HR - Having re-branded and re-named his blog, Gautam sets his sights on the human resources function and explores what it would take to re-invent HR.

Lance Huan, Your HR Guy: The One Thing You Should Do Today - In these troubling and uncertain times Lance offers his advice for dealing with the fear of the unknown.

Bonus Pick:  For those of you working for organizations that are having a holiday party, Susan Heathfield of About.com provides seven common office party gaffes that can equate to career suicide if not avoided.