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Download Here: BI #90 – Jody Heymann on Keeping Every Employee Motivated and Profitable

Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Podcast “Keeping Every Employee Motivated and Profitable” with guest Jody Heymann.

Jody Heymann wants companies to invest in workers at the bottom of the ladder. These employees, the ones running the factory assembly lines or the retail cash registers, are the ones closest to the products and the customers and the employees who really know what is going on with the company. Smart managers know that if there is a problem that needs to be solved, they go to these employees first. In her book Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody shows that the most successful companies are the ones who have invested in training and benefits for all of their employees, keeping them happy, productive, and turning a profit.

 

 Vineet Nayar on Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Download Here: BI #89 – Vineet Nayar on Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second

Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to host AMA’s Podcast “Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second” with guest Vineet Nayar.

Nelson Mandella, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr. They all had something in common: the ability to inspire people and make them want to change. Vineet Nayar looks to them as an example of how to effectively manage a company, by inspiring and listening to the employees and making them the priority. That way managing people becomes less about directing them in what to do and more about motivating them to make their own decisions.

 

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Download Here: BI #84 – Nilofer Merchant on Real Collaboration

Duration: 12 minutes 06 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Real Collaboration” with guest Nilofer Merchant.

Management gurus have always said ‘people matter.’ But those same gurus still relegate strategy to an elite set of executives who focus on frameworks, long presentations, and hierarchical approaches. After many years of working with Apple, Adobe, HP, and many other companies, Nilofer Merchant discovered the best way to create a winning strategy, which she details in her book, The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy.

 

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Download Here: BI #83 – Robbie Vorhaus on Branding Your Business Through Stories

Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Branding Your Business Through Stories” with guest Robbie Vorhaus.

What is your story? Who is your audience? How are you telling your story? Robbie Vorhaus, of Vorhaus Communications, says that with good storytelling companies can brand and market themselves to really get attention. Every company has a soul and a story to tell.

 

 Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love on Finding Your Passion at Work: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Download Here: BI #82 – Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love on Finding Your Passion at Work

Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Finding Your Passion at Work” with guests Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love.

Smart managers know how to engage their employees. The best way to do that is to engage their passions and access what they care about so employees will care about their work and learn to enjoy it. Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love have devised a system to determine what drives employees’ passions.

 

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Download Here: BI #81 – Michael Song on How to Get More Done with Fewer Meetings

Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “How to Get More Done with Fewer Meetings” with guest Michael Song.

Meetings have changed. They’re more frequent, virtual, and informal. Yet, most professionals haven’t upgraded their meeting skills. It’s no wonder that 43% of meeting time is wasted. In The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: Your Guide to Effective Meetings in the Information Age, best-selling author Michael Song discusses how to keep your meetings productive, on track, and engaging.

 

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Download Here: BI #80 – Peter Firestein on Building Success Through Reputation

Duration: 20 minutes 23 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Building Success Through Reputation” with guest Peter Firestein.

Public opinion in the wake of the financial meltdown has revealed the public’s abiding mistrust of corporations and the executives who run them. Scrutiny from the Internet and 24-hour cable TV offers companies no place to hide; so they must proactively seek the confidence of their shareholders and the public. In today’s economy, reputation is a prime factor in a corporation’s bottom line.

Peter Firestein presents Seven Strategies of Reputation Leadership in his book Crisis of Character, offering a fail-proof way for executives to immunize themselves and their companies against the breakdowns that can happen to even the most prominent organizations. Using real-life examples (from Merck and Citigroup to Hewlett-Packard and Coca-Cola), Crisis of Character presents concrete ways executives can shape the internal corporate culture to support their business interests.

 

 BI #78 – Paul Krugman on Staring Down Depression Economics: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Download Here: BI #78 – Paul Krugman on Staring Down Depression Economics

Duration: 10minutes 04seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast,” Staring Down Depression Economics” with guest Dr. Paul Krugman.

Dr Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and a regular columnist for the New York Times. He is also the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.  In this podcast, Dr. Krugman provides a concise account of events that have led to the current economic crisis, and offers solutions for recovery.

During the podcast Krugman shares various insights from his book, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Economy. In this book he discusses how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, how fiscal responsibility collapsed and provides a road map for recovery.

 

 BI#77 Stephen M.R. Covey on How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust [10:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Download Here: BI #77 Stephen M.R. Covey on How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust

Duration: 10minutes 04seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust” with guest Stephen Covey.

Stephen M.R. Covey is former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which became the largest leadership development company in the world under Covey’s direction. The company grew quickly and profitably achieving inc. 500 status. Stephen led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the most influential business books of the 20th century.

During the podcast Covey discusses his book, The Speed of Trust, which challenges the age-old assumption that trust is merely a social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard edged, economic driver - a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. Covey advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy.

 

 BI #76 – Edward Lawler on Making People Your Competitive Advantage: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Download Here: BI #76 – Edward Lawler on Making People Your Competitive Advantage

Duration: 15minutes 48seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Making People Your Competitive Advantage” with guest Edward E. Lawler.

Edward Lawler is a professor of business at the University of Southern California, and founder of the University’s Center for Effective Organizations (CEO). CEO has been recognized by Fortune and numerous other publications as one of the country’s leading management research organizations. Lawler has also been recognized by Business Week magazine as one of the top six “gurus” in the field of management.

During this podcast Edward will review his book Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage, the follow up for his book, Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness. Lawler explains how organizations should be designed to make talent the key source of competitive advantage; and through a combination of organization design, management practices, and talent the organization can gain a crucial competitive advantage. Throughout the interview Lawler discusses the cultural differences between Human Capital Centric Organizations and Global Competitive Organizations, providing various successful examples of each. The interview focuses on the common evolution from the human capital approach to global competitive with growth, resulting in a change of client type and service expectation.