Management
Now is the perfect time for business leaders, managers, and other so-called grownups to give a much needed reality check to the Generation Y employees that are on their staffs, those born between 1978 and 1990. This is the argument posed by Bruce Tulgan in his new book Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How To Manage Generation Y.
Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace, and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best selling author and advisor to business leaders all over the world, and a sought after keynote speaker and management trainer.
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Charles Jacobs on Why Feedback Doesn’t Work
How the Latest Brain Science Shows Why Management Needs to Be Rewired
June 12, 2009 / Podcast # 09-24
Business people are taught to make decisions with facts and logic, and to avoid emotional bias. But according to the latest research, we almost never decide rationally, despite thinking that we do. Our experiences carry an emotional charge encoded in the synapses of our neurons. And when we try to deny what our emotions tell us, we lose what we’ve learned from the past. That’s just one of many recent discoveries that help explain why management is so challenging.
As author Charles Jacobs explains in new book, Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons From The Latest Brain Science, much of the conventional wisdom taught to managers is not only inadequate; it produces the opposite of what was intended. The better path is frequently counterintuitive. Read more…
Paul Teutul, Sr. on Doing Business the Orange County Choppers Way
Lessons from Running a Family-Run Business
May 15, 2009 / Podcast # 09-20
If you think cruising down the highway on a custom chopper is the ultimate thrill ride, try running your own business. The same outlaw spirit that drives some people to strap on a helmet and hit the road drives other people to risk it all and build a business from the ground up. Bikers and entrepreneurs share at least one trait. They do it their way without compromise. That’s the opening liner note of a book entitled The Ride Of A Lifetime, written by Paul Teutul Sr. Read more…
Marshall Goldsmith on Influence in All Directions
How to exert your influence in all directions during tough times.
May 1, 2009 / Podcast # 09-18
One of our most popular podcast and webcast guests is executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times Bestseller What Got You Here Won’t Get You There as well as the new book Succession. In this podcast, Goldsmith coaches on how to exert your influence in today’s tough times. The topic is related to an upcoming AMA program, The Secrets of Managing Up. It will broadcast live on May 19 at 1PM, and it’s part of AMA’s new line of premium webinars. To find out more about this special 90 minute webinar, please visit amanet.org/events. Read more…
Sylvia Lafair on Breaking Family Patterns That Limit Success
How to dramatically improve professional relationships by taking control of the underlying behavioral patterns that undermine them.
April 24, 2009 / Podcast # 09-17
You know the type. Maybe he’s the office cut up or the woman who manages to look busy but avoids work or the guy who was the long suffering victim. There’s one in every office. Perhaps you or someone you know fits one of these profiles. These behaviors are painfully annoying and start conflict in the office.
Sylvia Lafair is author of Don’t Bring It To Work: Breaking The Family Patterns That Limit Success. Read more…