The Cranky Middle Manager Show #316 The Final Cranky Show and the Future of Work with John Blackwell
The Top 50 Thinkers…and We Know One
Posted on 10. Nov, 2007 by Wayne in General
Who do you think are the world’s top 50 business thinkers???? Well, according to Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove (they write for Management Issues among other things) here’s the list…. and one of our guests is on it.
Check out the Thinker’s 50 List here.Â
Marshall Goldsmith has been with us twice this year, Episode 79 and Episode 100 . We are honored that he’s such a big supporter of the show and Good on Ya, Marshall…. now if we can only get the guy at Number 7 (and you know who you are) to return our calls…. of course since he was number 4 last year, maybe he’s no longer such a big deal….on the way down at all… when he gets to number 39 he’ll come crawling to us…..
Help a Newbie Out, Will ya?
Posted on 06. Nov, 2007 by Wayne in General
We may not be the biggest fans of fancy-pants business schools but we are all about helping a brother out. In the spirit of helping, here goes…. NYU Graduate student David LiRosi invites you to take a survey on the factors involved in using a committee approach for the selection of the business processes to optimize. This survey is being conducted to assist in the completion of a thesis paper, which is part of the requirements for a NYU graduate candidate. Clicking on the link below will bring you directly to the survey being hosted on surveymonkey.com. After completing the survey, you will be taken to surveymonkey.com’s home page. Thank you in advance for your help.You can take the survey by clicking on this link. Good luck to David and a thousand blessings on all of you for helping him.
The Cranky Middle Manager Show 118 We Are Smarter Than Me Barry Libert
Posted on 03. Nov, 2007 by Wayne in Podcast
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #118
Howdy, today we follow up on Episode 95, when Rich Maltzman talked about Wearesmarter.org, and how they were writing a whole book based on a wiki. Well, the book is out and we have the co-author, Barry Libert (you can see video of him) of Mzinga.
Show Notes
0:00 Welcome to The Cranky Middle Manager Show. Today we look at “We Are Smarter Than Me- How to Unleash The Power of Crowds In Your Business” and the show is dedicated to Ibn Khaldun- the study of crowds and demographics is more vital to business than ever.
2:36 The crowd is no favorite of Bertrand Russell.. under what conditions do crowds do great things???
4:00 Welcome Barry Libert to the show. Nice to claim credit when you have a few hundred contributors. The book is all about how companies have used social networking tools to turn R and D, innovation, marketing over to crowds of chowderheads like you and me- and it’s working.
6:05 Even a company like Proctor and Gamble used 500,000 moms to design and sell Dawn DirectFoam. How’d you like to get total strangers to help you literally strike gold?
8:15 What is “social networking” and what’s the big deal? Well on one hand it’s MySpace and FaceBook (that’s the social part). On the other hand it’s a new way to work using networks.
12:35 This is about more than sharing information…it’s connecting real people- you and me folks. What if bad people come in to your network, though, and how does paranoia play in to this deal?
17:51 We look at some examples of this in work. Nike is replacing millions of dollars of advertising with people talking to people through discussion boards.
21:15 Barry talks about something they’re doing in their own company to drive their business.
27:55 What’s Barry reading???
Deborah Tannen “You Just Don’t Understand”
John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus