Anil Gupta is an world-renowned authority on global strategy. He joins brad to discuss what works when doing business with India and China. The "and" is part of the trick. He exhorts companies to think about India AND China, not one or the other. |
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| Editor-in-Chief of Strategy+Business Magazine joins us to give information about a sector of businesses that are showing surprising vitality in these uncertain times. Links: strategy+business Magazine | 
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It's easy to associate the 60's with hippies, free love and hallucinogenics, but there was another revolution going on at the same time. It was in business. Art Kleiner has studied the corporate mavericks of the era and describes the groundbreaking work that changed the marketplace forever. He explains what we can learn from the way that these revolutionaries thought and what shaped their lives. Links: www.artkleiner.com strategy+business Magazine Books: The Age of Heretics | 
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Charles S. Jacobs is the founder of the Amherst Consulting Group, founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of the most renowned corporations improve the performance of their businesses. He numbers among his clients fifty of the Fortune 100, and has worked in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Links: managementrewired.com Books: Management Rewired | 
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Think it's only the job of tech executives to predict the future? Think again. All of us have to live in the world that gets created and that our business competes in. Join Brad and Microsoft forecaster Dan Rasmus as they examine the trends and challenges ahead for companies, businesses and people around the globe. |
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When it was announced in late 2000 that Jeff Immelt would be taking the helm of GE, some skeptics were quick to voice their reservations about the future of the company after Jack Welch. Not only were Welch's shoes particularly large ones to fill, but the economy was dallying with recession, China and India were taking their first giant steps into the global economy, and just four days into Immelt's tenure came the biggest game changer of all: 9/11. The hand-wringing, it turned out, was all for nought. During Immelt's first seven years on the job, GE's revenues increased by more than 60%, its profits doubled, and the company solidified its status as the world leader in technological innovation. David Magee is the author of How Toyota Became #1; Turnaround: How Carlos Ghosn Rescued Nissan; The John Deere Way; and Ford Tough. His books have been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review, and Newsweek.Links: www.david-magee.com Books: Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way: Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century | 
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How do you measure something that defies measurement. Whether it's employee attitudes or the effect of word of mouth advertising, Doug Hubbard has an answer. In this interview, Brad throws his prepared questions out the window and puts Doug on the spot to solve a problem presented by another guest (Rob Walker). The result: Doug walks all of us through his universally applicable message on how to measure anything. Whether you're trying to quantify the risk in your latest stock purchase or you're assessing a new marketing plan, this interview will give you some real tools to solve your puzzle. Books: How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
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| Salespeople struggle for a point of differentiation in the market. What makes you, you company and your product special. Instead of focusing on adding features, Haley Rushing and Roy M. Spence Jr. suggest that it's not what you sell, but rather what you stand for. Haley and Brad discuss this concept and how it actually applies in the real world. Comment from Haley Rushing I thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue with Brad – only problem was how quickly the hour flew by. As an author, I really appreciated Brad's genuine familiarity and engagement with the fundamental idea of Purpose and how building an organization to make a difference in the world is the key to developing a high performing organization on so many fronts. I think Brad has earned an honorary degree in Purposology. Thanks for the great hour together!
-Haley Rushing, Chief Purposologist, co-author of It's not what you sell, it's what you stand for. |
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New media guru Jeff Jarvis joins Brad to discuss his musings on Google. Specifically, what would other industries be like if Google were a dominant player. Google has managed to rewrite the rules in several industries already. The question we all have is, "How can my company create the type of value that Google has in the industry that we're in?" Jeff Jarvis may have the answers. |
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Start your New Year off right by getting your business into shape! Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, he’s doing it again by telling business what they need to do to outsmart their competition. He reveals some surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years.
You’ll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs. |
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Read more... [Jim Champy - Outsmart!]
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What Jim Collins was to large companies, Keith McFarland is to small to medium sized enterprises. His study of what makes some companies, in the word of Jim Morrison, "break on through to the other side" defines the behaviours that leaders must exhibit in order to grow. During his discussion with Brad he reveals some of the traps that growing companies can fall into and prescribes practical solutions to avoid those pitfalls. Links: www.mcfarlandstrategy.com Books: The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers | 
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It doesn't matter how visionary you are, there is no way that one leader can identify all of the factors that will lead to success,or more commonly, failure. Mark Herman joins Brad to discuss how he takes leaders in both the public and private sector through scenarios built from the same principles that military leaders use to ensure success on the battlefield. Comment from Mark Herman First off let me say what a pleasure it was appearing on your show. Brad is an amazing interviewer who is clearly going places. I have had numerous interviews over 30 years and none were as enjoyable as this one. Thank you for asking such insightful questions, I really enjoyed the hour. I know Rob and Mark (my co-authors) appreciate the opportunity you gave us to tell our story. Mark Herman
Author of Wargaming for LeadersLinks: www.e-markherman.com www.boozallen.com Books: Wargaming for Leaders: Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom | 
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| Michael Hugos, a principal at the Center for Systems Innovation, mentors companies in business agility and systems architecture. He recently collaborated with a division of a Fortune 100 company to train business and technical people in agile systems development and develop supply chain visibility and global workflow management systems. He previously spent six years as chief information officer of a national distribution cooperative where he developed a suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed company's business model. He writes a blog called “Doing Business in Real Time”. He'll join us to talk about creating prosperity in your business even in a difficult economy. |
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We spend a lot of time on the show talking about business success. But what about the failures? What if we looked at bankruptcies, failed business divisions and spectacular business burnout? Paul Carroll will join us to talks about the enormous lessons that can be learned studying the worst mistakes in business. Links: www.billiondollarlessons.com Books: Billion Dollar Lessons | 
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Where did you start your career? If you're like millions of North Americans, there's a pretty good chance it was at McDonald's. Like those people, Brad started his career flipping burgers at the Golden Arches. And while companies like McDonald's are criticized for exploiting the youth of the world, there are lessons to learn. Brad is joined by author Paul Facella to discuss what can be learned from McDonald's. Paul insists it's "everything". |
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Remember when "Made in USA" and "Made in Canada" were proudly displayed on items throughout the store. Now it seems even our souvenirs are made in another country. It's no surprise to Richard Elkus that Asian countries have take over the manufacturing of just about everything, from our clothes to our toys to our electronics. He's observed that they have a fundamentally different way of thinking about business. What do we need to do in order to be competitive again? Elkus has the answers and he's not afraid to speak his mind. Books: Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations
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Rita McGrath studies innovation, corporate venturing and entrepreneurship. She is well known for developing practical tools and frameworks to make the innovation process less risky and difficult, and to bring a dose of reality to growth programs. She works extensively with leadership teams in Global 1,000 companies, and is a popular speaker. Her co-authored books are The Entrepreneurial Mindset (2000) and MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth (2005). MarketBusters has been translated into ten languages, and was rated a best business book by Strategy + Business. Rita is often cited in the press (see http://ritamcgrath.com). She has co-authored six Harvard Business Review articles, among them the best-selling "Discovery Driven Planning" (1995) and the recent "The Value Captors Process" (2007). She directs and teaches in Columbia's top ranked Executive Education programs. Links: Rita McGrath Homepage Books: Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity | 
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We've all seen the tremendous impact that technology has had on our society. In the workplace it has revolutionized everything from how we communicate to how we make decisions. For managers and workers alike, this revolution has created a technology age gap that can have a very negative effect on the workplace in terms of productivity as well as on the morale. We'll interview the author of Generation Blend, Rob Salkowitz and look at practical strategies for getting the most out of both younger and older workers. Links: Generation Blend Website Books: Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap Comment from Rob Salkowitz: Brad hosted the most in-depth and intelligent interview that I have engaged in in the six months I have been promoting Generation Blend. He obviously prepared carefully, and the result was a terrific, relaxed, and wide-ranging conversation. It's a rare pleasure to be able to finish a thought during a media interview, and Brad's show provides plenty of time to explore complex issues. His listeners are a lucky bunch to get this kind of quality week after week. Rob Salkowitz | 
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Robert J. Barbera, Ph.D., is executive vice president and chief economist at ITG and an Economics Department Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a noted Wall Street economist for over 25 years. Before arriving on Wall Street, Barbera was a staff economist for Senator Paul Tsongas and an economist for the Congressional Budget Office.
Books: The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing our Economic Future | 
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Robin is an American citizen, who gained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972. Yet he is also a relic of the British Empire. Born in India to British parents during World War II, he was sent back to Scotland as a child to be educated. Despite all of this, he now lives and works in Spain, as a research professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF to its friends) in Barcelona where he has the joy of interacting with talented PhD students from all over the world. Links: dancewithchance.com Books: Dance with Chance: Harnessing the Power of Luck | 
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Well, by now we've all heard that the world is flat. But what does this mean for managers who are trying to deal with cultural barriers and the challenge of teams that are dispersed throughout the world.
Susan Bloch and Philip Whiteley have some insights that have been earned in the real world and they join Brad to share their strategies for coping with a diverse, dispered workforce. Books: How to Manage in a Flat World: 10 Strategies to Get Connected to Your Team Wherever They Are
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