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What's managerial excellence? - Chat with Brendon Connelly
Many of you will recognize today's guest from his Slacker Manager blog. In this 33 minute chat with Bren Connelly, we cover a lot of business management talk ground including the definition of managerial excellence, how to manage change, MBA programs, iPods as training tools and the importance of the benevolent 2X4 effect.
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This is the last in this first series of podcasts! Tell me how you liked the series so I know whether to produce any more!!! Leave a comment with what you liked, hated, or would like to see in the future. Thanks for listening.
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I loved the podcast, particularly the part where you and Brendon talked about MBA programs. His comment that they do a good job of teaching you how to design a performance appraisal system, but they're not much help if you have to conduct an actual supervisory interview with someone who works for you. I agree. That's why I wrote Performance Talk: The One-on-One Part of Leadership. But I'v also worked with clients who've hired MBAs and, for the most part, I think most of them are better educated to analyze companies than to run them.
Posted by: Wally Bock | August 28, 2006 at 03:31 PM
Thanks, Wally. Bren is always a fun one to chat with and I hope that showed.
Posted by: Lisa Haneberg | August 28, 2006 at 10:22 PM
Lisa - I really admire the way in which you put your interviewees at ease then open up the dialogue in different directions. The duration is good - helps with the morning commute to the office on the train.
Keep up the good work!
Shaun
Posted by: Shaun Dunphy | September 06, 2006 at 05:20 AM
Shaun:
Thanks so much Shaun. I will have more podcasts coming soon.
Lisa
Posted by: Lisa Haneberg | September 06, 2006 at 12:37 PM