The Cranky Middle Manager Show #312 The Future of the MBA Ken Starkey
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #40 Managing in China with Rich Kuslan
Posted on 24. Mar, 2006 by Wayne in Podcast
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #40
Welcome to our second show about managing in Asia, this time we talk to Rich Kuslan of the Asian Business Intelligence Blog. You also get to hear my first feeble attempts at speaking Mandarin. I can now order a beer in 4 languages, assuming you distinguish between English and American…….
This week’s fiasco is thanks to Chinese Pod. I’m guessing I’ll be in Asia sometime before the end of the year and I don’t want to be just another dumb Canadian/American… I want to be a Canadian/American making a feeble effort. It’s all about world peace, baby.
SHOW NOTES
0:00 Welcome to the show. The dreaded day job is starting to spread out, and I”m trying to not be just another useless Westerner in a changing world. We take a look at Confucius… he did exist and introduced the heretical concept of ethics in the public service. He lived in China, not in Chicago, that much is obvious.
5:00 our quote of the week and the heretical notion that Steven Covey may be as guilty of intellectual piracy as those DVD salespeople in Chinatown.
6:00 Welcome to Rich Kuslan- sales trainer, speaker, all around envoy to the Chinese business world. The world premiere of my Mandarin accent. How important is doing business with China and what are the challenges?
8:27 The Chinese management style- remnants of Communism, Confucianism, and Skepticism. Flexibility is the key.
11:00 Always walking the thin line between stereotype and observation- how important are relationships over tasks?
14:52 Taking Key Performance Indicators to extremes- when measurement outweighs common sense. Is China developing its own management style? We learn the different types of Chinese managers… Taiwanese, Hong Kong etc.
17:30 Where are the managers learning their trade? Western training doesn’t work all that well. This is important, folks. Your sanity may depend on this.
21:00 A personal story of culture clash and management style. Six Sigma is going to be verrrrrrry difficult to implement if this is typical.
26:32 What can we expect as we start to work with or even FOR Chinese companies and how’s it going to be different than working with Japan in the 80s?
31:15 Besides the Asia Business Intelligence Blog, where can you go for information?
Don’t forget to check out our Frappr map. Put yourself on it and join other listeners from around the world!
Check out his Blog Roll- lots of stuff to check out. Scroll down, it’s worth it.
Show the World Who We Are
Posted on 23. Mar, 2006 by Wayne in General
Hey everyone, I’ve created an opportunity for our listeners all over the world to show our true colors (or colours, depending on where you are). Visit http://www.frappr.com/crankymiddlemanagers and put yourself on the map. I know we’ve got listeners all over the world, so please don’t be shy.
Together the weasels will not get us down!!!
Another Management-Issues Article
Posted on 21. Mar, 2006 by Wayne in General
Hi folks, here’s a post to my latest article on Management Issues- it’s on being a better resource to your boss… to become an internal consultant.
By the way, if you haven’t checked out our show on the book “The Paradox of Excellence”, you should.
I had dinner with David Mosby last night- a very cool guy and even more charming than he was on the show. Because show 39 was posted so quickly, some of you may have missed this one. It’s worth a listen.
The Cranky Middle Manager #39 Managing in India With Naveen Lakkur
Posted on 17. Mar, 2006 by Wayne in Podcast
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #039
Most Westerners have no real idea of what India’s all about- and let’s face it we’ll either be working with or FOR someone from there soon, if we’re not already. Besides time zones, what are some of the challenges to being a manager in that booming economy? We talk to Naveen Lakkur, CEO of Compassites Software Solutions.
By the way, thanks to Rajesh Setty ( who will be a guest on the show soon) for setting this interview up. Enjoy.
SHOW NOTES
0:00 Welcome to the Cranky Middle Manager- ever feel like a Russian nuclear missile? Find out how.
This show is dedicated to Bahadur Shah Zafar, last Moghul leader of India (okay, it’s in Pakistan now, but the borders were fluid back then), and victim of a particularly vicious corporate takeover.
2:30 Podcast Network (TPN) is looking for hosts all over the world. Heck if I can have a show…..
3:30 An Indian quote of the week, and pondering on IIT graduates. How the world has changed.
5:24 Welcome Naveen Lakkur. Besides Time Zones… what are the challenges in developing managers in that red-hot environment?
8:00 I’ve taken some shots at GE, but they’re doing a lot to develop managers in India. Even Microsoft gets some props. The world IS changing……
12:15 As someone who manages people, what are they doing well and what’s not going so swell? Talk about Diversity issues….
20:00 Are the schools in India turning out managers or just great individual contributors?
26:00 Here’s an extensive list of things Naveen learns from:
BLOGS
http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com
http://www.tompeters.com
Yeah, we know that one……
BOOKS:
“Man Management†Divine discourses on Management by Sri Sathya Sai Baba I can’t find this one in Amazon… if anyone can find me a link, EMAIL ME
“Jonathan Livingston Seagull†a story by Richard Bach
“Offshore Outsourcing†by Marcia Robinson and Ravi Kalakota
“Co-opetition†by Adam M Brandenburger and Barry J Nalebuff
“Success@life†by Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold
“Tough time’s never last, but tough people do†– Robert H Schuller
“Awaken The Giant Within†by Anthony Robins
“First Things First†– Stephen R Covey
“Who Moved My Cheese?†EDITORIAL NOTE: I put this one in under protest. I know where my cheese is…. I’m just lactose intolerant.
“Passion, Profit and Power†By Marshal Sylver
“Rich Dad, Poor Dad†by Robert Kiosaki More disclosure- I actually wrote a review on one of these sequel books. You can check it out here.