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The number of podcasts with a business angle are growing. The latest we have come across is The Cranky Middle Manager hosted by Wayne Trumel. I could give you a long drawn out explanation of what Wayne is up to, but it makes more sense to just send you to his 2007 show manifesto.
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Today's Dose from The Executive Almanac:
"JPMorgan Chase, the third largest bank in the United States, has a lot of ancestors--and now it's making amends for two of them.
Between 1831 and 1865, two predecessor banks, Citizens Bank and Canal Bank, both operating in Louisiana, apparently made loans with some 13,000 slaves as collateral. When planation owners defaulted on the loans, the banks took possession of 1,250 slaves.
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In a new book called "Simple Solution" are a few questions that the authors suggest will help middle managers make an impact and stand out. They state:
"Here are some examples to practice asking breakthrough questions. After reading them, formulate at least three breakthrough questions that would initiate radical change in your department.
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Don Tapscott has been writing about the intersection of business and technology for years. Wikinomics is his latest effort to explain how the networked Web is changing the relationships between companies and their customers. If you spend any time in this ideaspace, you are going to be familiar with many of the examples in Wikinomics.
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In this interview, I talk with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers.
When I asked Erika what the movie pitch was for her book, she said Growing Great Employees is "Good To Great meets Marcus Buckingham in the form of a Boy Scouts Handbook". You'll have to listen to get her full explanation of that, along with our discussion of nature versus nuture, why she used a gardening analogy, and why there are good reasons to have job descriptions.
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