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Welcome to the annual update on the 50 Best/Top leadership blogs on the web as of April 2016. This is our fifth year of putting this list together. As readers will see, once again, this list has changed quite markedly in just a 10 month period (because we have brought it forward 2 months this year). These significant changes result from a number of factors including:

1. Alexa global rankings of individual blogs have changed considerably (and Alexa has made many changes recently to improve its reach and accuracy). As in previous years, this mainly arises not only because of the time invested by individual blog authors in the last year but because many more web sites and blogs have been launched (and Alexa estimates that there are now around 125 million active, as opposed to dormant, blog sites in the world).

2. Readers a year ago (and since) alerted us to more qualifying leadership blog sites we were unaware of last year (8 are new with the highest at number 3 in the list).

3. Some leadership bloggers have done little to enhance or add to their blogging efforts and have slid backwards on the list (and/or in Alexa site visit numbers) or are out altogether in terms of site traffic. It's a reminder in the online world that if you stand still you can go very quickly in the wrong direction!

This year we have produced the list in a similar way, with the Alexa ranking as the main determinant of order. As we said last year, the Alexa rank (to be found at www.alexa.com) is an imperfect ranking raw score for web site popularity (as measured by traffic to each site) but it is a useful relative comparison metric. In essence it measures how popular a site is (from 1 being Google, 2, Facebook and 3, YouTube, all the way down to the lowest active site on the web as at 11 th April 2016). Whether or not a blog has gone up in the list and how far (shaded in green) or gone down in the list and how far (shaded in red) or unshaded (no movement).

So what are the main highlights of the Best 50 Leadership Blogs?

1. Michael Hyatt stays at number 1 again.

2. A total of 5 blog authors in the 2015 list exited or slipped below the top 50.

3. 13 blog authors have held their place or gone up in the list and 29 blog authors have gone down in the list.

4. 8 blog authors are new to the 2016 list

5. There are 42 male bloggers in the top 50 list and 8 females (females down 3 from last year). Lolly Daskal at number 8 is the highest female on this year's list. However, women are still underrepresented, given the population, and males dominate the top 10.

6. Top 50 Blog authors come from 6 countries around the world (including Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and the UK (with the most outside the US coming from Canada (3) but the list is dominated by US based authors (of which there are 42 in the top 50). The top 5 are all US based and so are 17 of the top 20.

7. US leadership bloggers come from 24 States with authors writing most from the sunshine states of Florida (7) and California (6) blogs.

8. Apart from the new entrants the biggest movers up the list in the last 12 months are George Ambler (up by 14 places or over 500,000 visits in the Alexa rankings (or from 33rd to 18th in the list) followed by David Zinger (up 8 places from 36th to 28th), and Jon Warner (up 5 places from 14th to 9th in the list).

So, let's now look at the list. It includes the names of the individual blogger or blog owner on the left, and their primary role(s) in his or her working life. It also includes a brief summary about the focus of the blog, so that individuals can visit the ones that appear most interesting (by clicking on their name below). Happy exploring!

Frequent and interesting blogger (3-4 times a week) on leadership development (intentional leadership) and related issues from this popular author and trade publishing expert.

Interesting blog offering wide range of general leadership Insights as well as interviews with business book authors.

This blog seeks to offer broad leadership, coaching and mentoring to individuals in regular 300 words or less articles. Dan also well understands the realm of social media.

This blog from a prolific writer focuses mainly on leadership and management issues but with an emphasis on behavioral and psychological principles.

Main focus is providing practical skill-building articles mainly in the areas of leadership, strategy, career development, communications and customer service.

Main focus is on leadership, but also covers many other topics including meetings, time management, teamwork and coaching.

Popular speaker and author focusing mainly on employee engagement, leadership, keynote speaking, entrepreneurship

Main focus is on leadership development and creating engaged workplaces. Aims to assist those who want to make a contribution, as a leader at work.

John Walston@ResourcefulMgr Consultant, Author and Coach
PENNSYLVANIA, US
This blog delivers practical information, training and tools any manager or supervisor can use to solve management and business problems - and tackle difficult situations with employees.

This blog is focused on leadership growth development and skill building from an experienced author and speaker and consultant.

Linda Fisher Thornton@leadingincontext
Academic, Author and Consultant
VIRGINIA, US
Broad based blog focused on many leadership issues with a bias towards ethics and responsibility

Christine Comaford SmartTribes Institute@Comaford Consultant and author
CALIFORNIA, US
New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford helps leaders navigate growth and change with a blog focused on better leadership (and the neuro-science that underpins our decisions).

Blog focused mainly on Culture, Culture Transformation & Leadership as well as many articles on coaching

Areas of focus are Transformational Leadership, Operational Performance Improvement, Organizational Development, Program and Change Management and Creating Business Value via IT.

Aimed at leaders at all level, this blog offers particular insights, information, tips, lists and pointers to help managers to perform at a better or higher level.

Very diverse long-standing blog focused on many broad ranging leadership, management and organization development issues

Main focus is on leadership development, business communication, executive coaching and a range of ideas on self development.

This blog showcases a range of leadership and related articles as well as having a focus on employee empowerment and engagement.

This blog focuses on leadership development with a main emphasis on improving, and sustaining relationships with the people.

Many lists like the one above encompass bloggers who may talk about a lot of other subject areas well beyond leadership and related matters, and indeed may have greater experience or expertise elsewhere. This is not to say that such broadly based bloggers are not popular or interesting to know about and subscribe to - just not in a list that should be about organizational leadership and leadership development primarily. In the 50 sites above therefore you will find no mention of people such as Anthony Robbins (personal development), Guy Kawasaki (entrepreneurship) or Malcolm Gladwell (thinking/creativity) but only writers whose main focus is improved leadership or management skills in some way, shape or form. Another excluded group is the many excellent bloggers that write about leadership issues from a faith-based standpoint (such as Ron Edmonson's blog). We take the view that these belong in a separate list and it would therefore be useful to publish this at some point.

The 50 blogs listed above are all "very good" and in that sense there is no sense in which one is relatively "better" than another (as this is so often about the focus of the writer and the relative interests of the reader). Michael Hyatt is top of the list (for the fifth year running) because he has the 27,454 th most visited site on the web right now according to Alexa rankings (in the top 0.5%-even though he has gone backwards a little since last year). In fact even our 50 th blog site ( MaryJo Asmus) has the 3,632,568 th most visited site. This puts our 50th top leadership blog in the top 4% of most visited sites in the entire world. And by the way, this does not mean that blogger popularity or status or even overall money earned follows this order at all. This is a function of who the person is (in career status terms), what they do, how long they have been blogging, how much they speak publicly and even how social media "savvy" they may be, to name but a few factors.

For those people wondering who was close to making the top 50 but not quite, the next 3 blogs are Colleen Sharen (from Canada- 3,707,785), John Agno (from the US- 3,709,326), and Steve Farber (also from the US- ). Please note that the above list was compiled by Dr. Jon Warner, himself a long-term blogger in the leadership realm, (and up 5 places to number 9 on the above list). Any mistakes, errors or omissions are entirely his and should anyone have any suggested changes or input for inclusion in future blog postings such as this please contact him at jonWCOD@gmail.com

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Welcome to the annual update on the 50 Best/Top leadership blogs on the web as of April 2016. This is our fifth year of putting this list together. As readers will see, once again, this list has changed quite markedly in just a 10 month period (because we have brought it forward 2 months this year).