August 12, 2008 by Brad Sage

Business Intelligence - BI #42 John C. Maxwell on the Irrefutable Laws of Leadership:
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Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre’s Business Intelligence podcast series is pleased to present the leadership podcast “Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, with special guest John C. Maxwell.
During this leadership podcast John Maxwell will review the inspiration for his new best selling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. John will share with listeners his belief that once opportunity presents itself it is too late to prepare.
Dr. Maxwell will explain that the talent of an individual is not enough to be successful, what makes a leader successful is not just pure talent but the choices he or she makes.
Dr. Maxwell has broken down these choices into thirteen different factors that will impact an individual’s talent potential:
1. Believing – Lifts ones talent
2. Passion – Energizes ones talent
3. Innovation – Activates ones talent
4. Focus – Directs talent
5. Preparation – positions talent
6. Practice – Sharpens talent
7. Perseverance – Sustains talent
8. Courage – Tests talent
9. Teaching – Expands talent
10. Character – Protects talent
11. Relationships – Influences talent
12. Responsibility – Protects talent
13. Team Work – Multiples talent
Dr. Maxwell will explore the importance of each factor with real examples and explain why each choice is an imperative choice and a stepping-stone to the next.
Dr. John C. Maxwell is the founder of Maximum Impact, an Atlanta-based organization with a mission to develop leaders of excellence and integrity. Dr. Maxwell is also the author of more than 30 books with over 7 million copies sold.
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August 6, 2008 by Brad Sage

BI #Stephen Baum on Experiences That Shape Great Leaders:
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Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre’s Business Intelligence podcast series is pleased to present the leadership podcast “Experiences That Shape Great Leaders”, with special guest Stephen Baum.
During this leadership podcast Stephen Baum will examine the three pivotal questions that one should ask them selves when positioning into the next phase of their career:
1. Why people with similar talents have different degrees of success?
2. Can someone take their present performance and advance himself or herself?
3. What are the next steps to ensure success?
Stephen Baum will give real life examples of how to not only efficiently answer these pivotal questions but how to execute the answers. Mr. Baum will also review why it is that countless people smarter and more talented then those leaders present stall along the way and how we can learn from their experiences in order to replicate the successes and avoid the pitfalls.
Stephen H. Baum has been an advisor and coach to CEOs for more than twenty years, first as a partner with Booz Allen & Hamilton and then as an independent practitioner. As the chair of the Vistage Group of business owners and chief executives who engage in peer-to-peer coaching, Mr. Baum’s role has been to facilitate confidential exchange of experience, expertise, and approaches to decisions, ideas and resources on issues of critical importance to the members.
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July 29, 2008 by admin

BI #40 Joan Knutson on Linking Strategy, Execution [12:22m]:
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Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre is excited to present the American
Management Association’s podcast “Linking Strategy, Execution an Project
Management” with special guest Joan Knutson.
During this podcast Joan Knutson will define the importance of developing the
synergistic links between strategic planning, strategic management and execution and
she will outline the role that effective project management plays at each stage.
Joan Knutson will also discuss the key components along with real life examples of how to
effectively create a project management system that will ensure success on all levels.
Ms. Knutson will discuss the challenges that could be faced when new projects are
started and how to get buy in from all levels of management.
Joan Knutson is founder and manager of Project Mentors, a successful multimillion
dollar project management training and consulting firm. Joan is the author of Project
Management: How to Plan and Manage Successful Project.
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July 22, 2008 by Brad Sage
Download here: BI #39 James Kilts on Doing What Matters
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre’s Business Intelligence podcast series is pleased to present the leadership podcast “Doing What Matters”, with special guest James Kilts.
During this leadership podcast Mr. Kilts will discuss his new best selling book Doing What Matters. Mr. Kilts reveals his system for success that is both cutting-edge and back-to-basics he will also give real life examples supporting his four major principles of when to stop analyzing and when to act.
Mr. Kilts will also discuss why action must always be a top priority and why reestablishing process and continuous communication development is essential to team accomplishments.
Currently, Mr. Kilts is a Founding Partner of Centerview Partners, a private equity and financial advisory firm. Not only does Mr. Kilts have a worldwide and world-class reputation as a business leader, being dubbed a “brand mechanic” by The Wall Street Journal, he is especially well-known for reviving brands and turning around established companies like Nabisco and Gillette.
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July 15, 2008 by Brad Sage

BI #38 Jane Linder on the Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives:
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Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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This week Canadian Management Centre’s Business Intelligence podcast series presents the management podcast “Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives”, from the American Management Association, with special guest Jane Linder.
During this management podcast Dr. Linder will discuss why managers who follow “best management practices” can produce mediocre results and will give an overview of the essential tools on how to conquer these challenges.
Dr. Linder will also review her new book Spiral Up. . . and Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives, in her new book Dr. Linder argues that if you want to create successful initiatives you’ve got to abandon the accepted, linear, day-by-day management mindset and step into the collective real world.
Dr. Linder has been a professor at Harvard Business School, and has spent more than a decade as an executive in the technology industry. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, MIT’s Sloan Management Review, and Across the Board, among others, and she is also the author of Outsourcing for Radical Change.
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July 8, 2008 by Brad Sage
Download here: BI #37 Becoming a Resonant Leader
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds
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This week Canadian Management Centre is excited to present the American
Management Association’s podcast “Becoming a Resonant Leader” with special guest
Annie McKee.
During this podcast Annie McKee will define what a resonant leader is and will also
dispel the myths of being an emotional leader. Through the resonance leadership
method, leaders can become attuned to the needs and dreams of people they lead and
create conditions where people can excel and business goals will be exceeded.
Annie McKee is the co author of the best selling book, Becoming a Resonant Leader
and is the co-founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and she teaches at the
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
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July 2, 2008 by Brad Sage
Download here: BI #36 Dan Coughlin on Accelerating Your Leadership
Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre’s Business Intelligence podcast series is excited to present this week the “Accelerating Your Leadership” podcast from the American Management Association, with special guest Dan Coughlin.
Dan Coughlin is president of the Coughlin Company, a consulting firm specializing in business acceleration, working with companies such as AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, and the St. Louis Cardinals.
During this leadership podcast Dan Coughlin reviews his new book Accelerate . In his book Mr. Coughlin discusses 20 lessons on how a manager can accelerate their leadership and how they move from being an average manager to becoming an exceptional manager.
Mr. Coughlin also discusses priority management. He reviews the importance of utilizes priority management systems and gives real life examples of how to implement some of his 20 leadership lessons to meet personal and professional objectives.

BI #36 Dan Coughlin on Accelerating Your Leadership:
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June 24, 2008 by Brad Sage

BI #35 Richard Thaler on the Architecture of Choice:
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Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre this week presents the American Management
Association’s podcast “Architecture of Choice” with guest Richard Thaler.
During this podcast economist Richard Thaler will discuss how to use choice
architecture to establish environments that are designed to assist people in
making good decisions for themselves and those they interact with.
Mr. Thaler will give real life examples on how to establish effective choice environments
and will review the average persons thought and decision making patterns. Mr. Thaler
will also address the controversial views on establishing these choice environments that
entice a person to make the choices that are laid out before them.
The podcast will outline the business acumen of using choice architecture to support not
only employees but consumers while meeting overall business objectives.
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June 17, 2008 by Brad Sage

BI #34 Len Sandler on Becoming an Extraordinary Manager:
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Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to present the “Becoming an Extraordinary Manager” podcast from the American Management Association, introducing guest Len Sandler.
Mr. Sandler will discuss how an average manager becomes an extraordinary manager. During this podcast Mr. Sandler will review the top 5 reasons and challenges that face the average manager and how to rise above these pitfalls to be truly successful as a leader.
Mr. Sandler will also give step-by-step guidance on how to conquer the myth of the manager that “people are born managers” and will give you the tools on how to not only become a manager but an extraordinary leader.
Len Sandler is the President of Sandler Assoc. and is the author of the best selling book Becoming an Extraordinary Manager, which focuses not just on “understanding” principles of good management, but on taking action. Mr. Sandler has successfully developed and delivered more than 2,500 seminars for such clients as EMC, General Motors, Disney, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson.
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June 11, 2008 by Brad Sage

BI #33 Dick Grote on Disciplining without Punishment:
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Duration: 13 minutes 26 seconds
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Canadian Management Centre is proud to present the Disciplining without Punishment podcast from the American Management Association. Introducing special guest Dick Grote. During this podcast Dick Grote and CMC will discuss how a manager maintains discipline without punishment. Mr. Grote will give real life examples of how to humanize the approach of disciplining employees with out punishing and or demeaning and still achieving desired results.
Mr. Grote is the Chairman and CEO of Grote Consulting Corp., and the author of Discipline without Punishment , The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal, The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, and Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work. His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal.
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