Management
Lynn Taylor on How to Tame an Office Tyrant
How to build positive relationships with even the most out-of-control boss and still thrive in their job.
October 16, 2009 / Podcast # 09-42
Most people simply endure the tirades, mood swings, and incessant questions from their tyrannical bosses. But a new book by Lynn Taylor, Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant addresses the situation and shows the readers how to build positive relationships with even the most out-of-control boss and still thrive in their job.
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William Schiemann on Reinventing Talent Management
Getting tactical with measuring and managing the human side of business.
October 2, 2009 / Podcast # 09-40
Over the past 10 or so years talent management has become something of an HR hurrah term. The extent to which all the hubbub has led to tangible results is quite another issue. Dr. William Schiemann’s Reinventing Talent Management: How to Maximize Performance in the New Marketplace aims to put a tight process and discipline of measurement behind the annual report cliché that “Our people are our most important asset.” At the heart of Dr. Schiemann’s thesis is a provocative new talent management model he terms People Equity.
William Schiemann is Chief Executive Officer of Metrus Group. Dr. Schiemann and his colleagues have consulted extensively with many major corporations on the development and implementation of business strategies. He is coauthor of Bullseye! Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement. He’s also written extensively for many publications including Across the Board, Journal of Business Strategy, Management Review and Quality Progress.
For additional training on this topic, consider these AMA seminars:
* Talent Management
* Employee Retention Strategies
* Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
To learn more, read these AMACOM Books:
* The Manager’s Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential by William J. Rothwell
* The AMA Guide to Management Development by Daniel R. Tobin, Ph.D., Margaret Pettingell
* The Management 500 by Dan Coughlin
John Baldoni on How To Lead Your Boss
Every manager on the move wants to have influence at the top.
September 18, 2009 / Podcast # 09-38
In Lead Your Boss, recognized leadership guru John Baldoni gives managers new as well as tried and true methods for influencing both their bosses and their peers, and giving senior leaders reasons to follow their lead.
Named one of the world’s top 30 influential gurus by Leadership Gurus International in 2007, John Baldoni wrote Lead By Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results (AMACOM). Baldoni also writes the Leadership At Work blog for Harvard Business Publishing.
For additional training on this topic, consider these AMA seminars:
* Partnering With Your Boss
* Getting Results Without Authority
* Successfully Managing People
To learn more, read these AMACOM Books:
* Lead By Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results by John Baldoni
* Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick
Thomas Harrison on How to Develop Your Leadership Instincts
Could success be the result of something in our DNA?
August 28, 2009 / Podcast # 09-35
Is the ability to succeed in business hardwired into our DNA? Are entrepreneurs, like racing thoroughbreds, simply born to win? Instinct, by Thomas L. Harrison, is the first book to apply the tools and insights of human genome research to the concept of success. Harrison, a corporate CEO who began his career as a cell biologist, argues that successful people, particularly successful entrepreneurs, tend to have certain identifiable talents encoded in their genes. Harrison shows readers how to determine if they have inherited these genes, and how to compensate if they are lacking in some of these vital traits.
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Dan Coughlin on Management Success Lessons from Top Auto Racing Teams
The world of auto racing requires the same qualities essential for every manager who wants to build and sustain a profitable business.
August 21, 2009 / Podcast # 09-34
The Management 500 (AMACOM Books) provides practical management lessons drawn from the history of professional auto racing. With insights and stories from some of the most successful people in Formula 1, IndyCar Series, and NASCAR over the past 60 years including Lee White, President of Toyota Racing Development and Ed Laukes, head of Toyota Motorsports, consultant Dan Coughlin shows busy managers how they can rev up their skills in areas like leadership, teamwork, strategy, branding, problem-solving, change management and innovation, and get their company running in high gear. Read more…