Efficiency
Michael Song on How to Get More Done with Fewer Meetings
How to stop feeling like a hamster and escape the meeting cage.
November 20, 2009 / Podcast # 09-47
Meetings have changed. They’re more frequent, virtual, and informal. Yet, most professionals haven’t upgraded their meeting skills. It’s no wonder that 43% of meeting time is wasted. In The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: Your Guide to Effective Meetings in the Information Age, bestselling author Mike Song discusses how to keep your meetings productive, on track, and engaging.
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Ric Merrifield on Rethinking Cost Cutting and Boosting Innovation
A Microsoft strategist exposes what does and doesn't need attention in your organization.
July 31, 2009 / Podcast # 09-31
It’s the trap that ensnares virtually every business. We focus on process: “how” we’re doing the job. And we forget about the bigger issue: “what” we’re doing and “why” we’re doing it. That’s why we’re leaving so much value on the table.
In Rethink, business architect Ric Merrifield exposes this problem with vivid examples and introduces breakthrough techniques for overcoming it. Merrifield presents case studies ranging from ING DIRECT to Amazon.com to Procter & Gamble. These diverse companies have learned how to cut costs, strengthen innovation, and profit from change all at the same time. Read more…
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.
In his book The Complexity Crisis, management consultant John L. Mariotti looks at Read more…