The Cranky Middle Manager Show 108 Obvious Management- Jim Dale
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #108 (MP3 14.3MB 30:34Min)
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Hello all. Welcome to another edition of the show. Management is tough, that’s obvious, but there are very few secrets- the things you have to do are obvious… doing them is tough. Today we talk to Jim Dale, author of The Obvious- all You Need to Know in Business. Period. Bold claim…..
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Show Notes
0:00 Okay, so the quest for National Middle Manager Day ain’t going so swell. No wonder, Middle Management is like your prostate……. but we won’t dwell on that now. The secrets to good health, like the secrets to business are no secret, dare we say they’re obvious…..
This show is dedicated to Oreste Baratieri... who holds the distinction of having suffered the worst defeat of any European army in Africa. There were some fairly obvious mistakes made… so why make them? Peer pressure, hubris and well, the Italian army….
4:17 The quote of the week is from George Bernard Shaw….. the obvious is sometimes the hardest to deal with.
5:15 Welcome Jim Dale, author of The Obvious. All you need to know is business is a pretty big claim. The lessons learned don’t always get absorbed when they should. No magic
7:34 First obvious lesson- work is a verb so get to it.
9:06 When did these obvious lessons dawn on him? Lessons are learned the hard way- failure is hard earned. We drag Thomas Edison and Babe Ruth into the conversation. Failure is the best teacher there is.
12:20 Every job is sales, live with it. Warning, you may even hear some good things about the sales folks in this conversation, but let’s face it- no matter what you do you’re selling something.
15:53 You have to love a book that freely uses the term weasel, just like we do on this show. While his chapter, “A weasel is a rodent” is zoologically untrue, it does make a point about using jargon and euphemism.
20:13 The obvious way out of Middle Management is to take on the crappiest jobs in the company. Solve the problems no one else wants to tackle and you’re a hero.
23:15 Imagine that you work for you….. what behaviors do you exhibit that you’d hate? Gossip is a big one
28:47 Jim’s Resources- basically plug something in and follow the strings on the web and see what happens. Smart man, he digs this show.