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The Cranky Middle Manager Show #199 Thrive in Tough Times with Mike Cook
Posted on 12. Jul, 2009 by Wayne in General, Podcast
Cranky Middle Manager Wayne Turmel looks at how managers need to examine their attitudes in these weird times. We talk to Mike Cook about how to thrive or at least survive. We also look at management as first aid and a poet gives us trite advice that holds up. Sounds like another typical show doesn’t it?
Mike Cook, author of Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World.
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Show Notes
0:00 Welcome to the 199th episode of the show. We are in the middle of a series that asks you to examine how you’re doing and where you’re going. Do you feel like you’ve got post-traumatic shakes? That’s why we dedicate this episode to Sir Robert Peat. Oh and you learn more than you ever wanted to know about really delivering mouth-to- mouth resucitation.
3:26 The quote of the week is from Anne Bradstreet, who knew a thing or two about adversity. Yes, the advice is trite. It’s also true and many of us need to hear it.
4:35 Welcome Mike Cook, author of Thrive: Stand on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World. It’s time to reexamine our relationship to work. Becoming independent and understanding your personal value is critical to working relationships. In a century we’ve gone from mostly self-employed to employed and heading back to self-employment with an education system that teaches us to shut up and do as we’re told.
10:03 Being a follower is based on the faulty logic that those we’re following know what they are doing. How do you take grown people who have been well trained to look at security first and turn them into self-starters?
16:00 Are you dependent on your evil overlords? You need to understand your personal value proposition. What is it YOU bring to the job that no one else does and why should they care? How do you bring it to their attention?
21:30 One of the challenges is that entrepeneurial thinking is so foreign and scary it’s hard to do. Have we been domesticated like cattle?
26:00 If Mike were to grab you by the lapels, here’s the one thing he’d tell you to do: Stop, look 5 years down the road and tell me if the story has a happy ending. If the answer isn’t fast and positive, you’d better change what you’re doing.
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