Something You Should Know about Management

March 4, 2013

Interview with Ashley Merryman, co-author of the book Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing

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Mike Carruthers:
Men are more competitive than women - that’s a common belief but it’s not exactly true.

Ashley Merryman:
What we’ve found in the research is that it’s not that men and women compete differently once they’re in the competition – a woman will fight just as hard for a job as a guy.
 

January 21, 2013

Interview with Ray Fisman, author of the book The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

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Mike Carruthers:
You’ve probably worked in a job or been part of an organization that you thought was not run very well.

Ray Fisman:
Most people look at their lives and organizations and see nothing but dysfunction and they think about how much better things could be.
 

October 24, 2012

Interview with Mark C. Thompson, author of the book Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value

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Mike Carruthers:
If you want to be successful and admired by others is it more important to be competent or charismatic? Well research has asked that question and it turns out…

Mark C. Thompson:
Competence and your ability to do the work ended up being more important than how naturally communicative or extroverted that you are – it’ll always trump personality and charisma is your competence.
 

July 23, 2012

Interview with Lisa Bodell, author of the book Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution

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Mike Carruthers:
In every organization there are rules, policies and procedures and the more meetings you have the more rules, policies and procedures you create.

Lisa Bodell:
And I think what we have to do is rather than creating more things and coming up with more ideas we have to start by simplifying and creating less.