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The Cranky Middle Manager Show #54 Slow Leadership With Adrian Savage
Posted on 09. Jul, 2006 by Wayne in Podcast
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #054
Welcome to the show. We have a great guest, Adrian Savage…also known as Carmine Coyote depending on which blog you read… Slow Leadership.com or The Coyote Within.
We also have some shameless self-congratulation going on.
First, for the first time we have cracked The Podcast Network’s Top
Ten shows for the month with over 5980 total downloads for the month! Check out all the choices for your listening pleasure.This also means that those of you new to the show are downloading past episodes… check out the archives month by month for the past 53 shows and see what you’ve been missing.
Secondly, my new e-book, “Meet Like You Mean It- The Cranky Middle Manager’s Guide to Productive and Painless Meetings” is now available for download and people are saying nice things about it.
 Lisa Haneberg of Management Craft said, “This 37 page e-book if filled with lots of great stuff about meeting effectiveness AND Wayne’s signature directness and wit. His choices of quotes and words adds a lot of color to what could otherwise be considered a dryish topic. We all gotta meet. Through down eight bucks for this entertaining e-book that will help you make the most of them.”
Thanks lady. Now, about this week’s show…
SHOW NOTES
0:00 Welcome to the show. After some self-congratulation we dedicate the show to Attila the Hun. After all, it’s about taking your time and learning to lead. Here’s a guy who started planning his revenge on Rome when he was 12 and wound up conquering most of Europe.
4:30Â Our quote of the week is from Bertrand Russell, one of Adrian’s favorite writers as you’ll discover. When you’re playing teacher (or leader of any kind) it’s not hard to impress the kids…. but are you up to the task?
5:45 Welcome Adrian Savage. He’s writing two blogs, www.adriansavage.com and www.slowleadership.com. What’s with that?
7:45 What does Slow Leadership have to do with Slow Food? We need to slow down to become the leaders we want to be. And what the heck is Leadership and how is it different than Management?
9:30 Adrian’s pet peeve- Hamburger Leadership.
12:10Â The 8 Principles of Slow Leadership: 1) Right Tempo 2) Right Attention 3) Right Balance 4) Right Perspective 5) Right Direction 6) Right Relationships 7) Right Enjoyment 8) Right Gratitude.
12:45 It’s all about trust… that’s what matters most and I make an embarrassing confession from my own life. Remember, trust is a gift, it can’t be earned.
21:15 What the heck is Hamburger Leadership? It’s any leadership that comes with a recipe.
24:00 Adrian is reading a lot of classical philosophy rather than business books. (This is a great plug for my book, A Philistine’s Journal-an Average Guy Tackles the Classics which is also available in the Cranky Middle Manager Store). Do yourself some good and read Bertrand Russell.
We’re glad you’re here, but now go read something completely un-businessy.
That’s it gang. Don’t let the weasels get you down.
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Just want to thank you for keeping at this and say how much I appreciate your clear and comprehensive comments. I missed the Richmond connection in the original Nation article. Really do hope and expect that someday soon we’ll be reading your work, or something comperable, in the RTD. In the meantime, I’m glad we can read it here.