Efficiency
Tom Redman on Using Data to Drive Results
Your company’s data can add enormous value to every facet of the organization — from marketing and new product development to strategy and financial management.
June 5, 2009 / Podcast # 09-23
In Data Driven, Thomas Redman, the “Data Doc,” shows how to leverage and deploy data to sharpen your company’s competitive edge and drive its profitability.
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Living Rewired and Defeating Distraction
Two authors present ideas for surviving and thriving in the online era.
December 19, 2008 / Podcast # 08-51
For your holiday listening enjoyment, Edgewise presents a double episode featuring two outstanding interviews on a critical issue: how our ability to think and focus is being radically altered in the Information Age.
Hooked up to the Internet’s global computing grid, massive information processing plants are pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. It’s a revolution of the kind that hasn’t been seen since electricity became a household utility. Nicholas Carr’s new book The Big Switch examines the promise and the perils of this transformation.
In Distracted, Maggie Jackson warns that modern society’s inability to focus heralds an impending Dark Age—an era historically characterized by the decline of a civilization amid abundance and technological advancement. Jackson posits that our near-religious allegiance to a constant state of motion and addiction to multitasking are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention—the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress and stunting society’s ability to comprehend what’s relevant and permanent.
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John Mariotti on Conquering the Complexity Crisis
Why having too many products, markets, and customers is crippling your company -- and what to do about it.
September 26, 2008 / Podcast # 08-39
In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, many companies have created dozens of new products and services to increase their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line profits.
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John Kotter on Using Urgency to Your Advantage
How to get people to see, feel, and act on the need for change.
September 12, 2008 / Podcast # 08-37
Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Now, in his new book, A Sense of Urgency, Read more…
Peter Senge on the Necessary Revolution in Business
How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
July 25, 2008 / Podcast # 08-30
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to power another. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. A world in which corporations forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the earth and development of societies all over the world. Now, stop imagining – that world is already emerging.
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