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Wayne Turmel talks with Achieve Global’s Andrew Calvert about middle management in Asia, and what it’s like to be an ex-pat in Singapore. Also the guy who ran interference for Marco Polo……
Andrew Calvert, international man of mystery    
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0:00 Another travelogue today… [...]

 

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Today Wayne Turmel talks to Franke James, editor of Officepolitics.com about the scourge of middle managers everywhere- the hated office politics and “playing the game”. There’s no avoiding it, as the founder of Rome will tell you….
Officepolitics.com’s Franke James.
And the cure for the political weasels in your office!

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0:00 Welcome behind the looking glass, gang. [...]

Hi folks… as you know, project management is one of our “4 Disciplines of Highly Effective, Leadership Exhibiting, Project Nailing, Cheese Moving Managers”.
Well Cornelius Fichtner is the host of The PM Podcast, a great resource for anyone who has to manage projects. He’ll be on this show in October… look forward to that. He had [...]

Friend of the show Nick McCormick (he was on episode 126) over at the Joe and Wanda blog has started a series of audio tips for managers. I was honored to be the second person interviewed, and I discussed a theory i’ve been working for a while…that managers are literally the heart of an organization…and [...]