The Cranky Middle Manager Show #099 (MP3 9.89 MB 28:46Min)

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99 Episodes, who knew? Welcome to the show. As this show launches I am on vacation so you’re listening, or not…what do I know. Time with the family is as important as anything you and I are going to do here. Enough… on with the show and our guest, Dan Coughlin, author of “Accelerate, 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum”
0:00 Welcome to the show. Today we examine the irony of the term “direct report”, then get down to business. Today’s show is dedicated to Zahir Ud din Babar, founder of the Mughal Empire in India. Small teams, highly organized and empowered to do what they need to do can accomplish a lot.

2:21 Our quote of the week is from the poet Horace- with what could well be the motto for this show…..mixing the pleasant and the useful is what it’s all about?

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3:20 When our friend Steve Farber recommends someone, well we listen up. Dan Coughlin is here to tell us about accelerating ourselves and our teams. The CEO is on her own this time out. Right away he talks madness: we’re supposed to cut back??? What’s the business upside of down time?

8:05 Why don’t we manage our time better? What are we trying to prove? Dan tells a great story about what happens when you try too hard.

13:00 Talking trash about the people you work with is a career killer.

15:35 How do you overcome silos in your workplace? Part of it is a focus on your own needs. The other thing is taking such good care of your own turf you lose sight of how it fits into the rest of the organization and everyone follows suit.

19:15 3 Tips to building trust in your team:

1. Work to understand the other person
2. Clarify what they expect of you
3. At the minimum, deliver what’s expected

24:50 What’s the one biggest thing you can do to accelerate your team? Clarify the bigger picture and not get caught up in the day-to-day crises that inevitably arise.

26:20 What’s Dan reading these days?

The Dip Seth Godin (because we haven’t plugged him in a couple of weeks)

The Wizard of Menlo Park Edison was the first “celebrity civilian”, what did he do to stand out in a crowd?

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I’m out of here on vacation. We’ll be back end of the month with our 100th episode!

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