Something You Should Know about Management

June 3, 2010

Interview with Wendy Ulrich, co-author of the book The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win

Mike Carruthers:
How can you make the time you spend at work more meaningful and more enjoyable?

Wendy Ulrich:
One of the things that we see in the research today that brings meaning into people's lives is good relationships at work.
 

March 24, 2010

Interview with Meryl Runion, author of the book Speak Strong, Say what you Mean, Mean what you Say, Don't be Mean when you say it.

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Mike Carruthers:
Say what you mean - it seems like simple straightforward advice but so often we don’t.

Meryl Runion:
So many of us have been taught not to say what we mean for the sake of social nicety or to keep the peace.
 

February 19, 1020

Interview with Terry R. Bacon, author of the book What People Want: A Manager's Guide to Building Relationships That Work

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Mike Carruthers:
A lot of managers are lousy at their job and the process of promoting managers is a big part of the problem.

Terry Bacon:
A lot of managers are promoted because they're very good technically at what they do.  And they're so good technically, they're promoted into positions of management, often without having a real aptitude for people and usually without any real good training on how to manage people.
 

February 9, 2010

Interview with Alice Adams, author of the book Playing to Strength: Leveraging Gender at Work

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Mike Carruthers:
A common belief (in the workplace anyway) is that men and women have very different strengths that they bring to the table.

Alice Adams:
"Men are more analytical, have higher intensity leadership qualities, women are more empathetic they’re better at collaborating..."

Alice Adams, author of the book Playing to Strength, says these perceptions about gender differences in the workplace are actually completely false.