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Robert Sutton on How to Be a Good Boss and Avoid Being a Bad Boss

How can you tell if you’re one of those bad bosses? It’s hard to self-evaluate. According to a Zogby study, 35% of workers reported having a boss who bullied them but only 0.5% of bosses said they ever bullied anyone. Obviously, there is a disconnect somewhere. Robert Sutton, in his new book Good Bo

Rodd Wagner on defeating workplace disengagement

Rodd Wagner is the coauthor of 12: The Elements of Great Managing , the long-awaited sequel to the 1999 runaway bestseller First, Break All the Rules . Grounded in Gallup's 10 million employee and manager interviews spanning 114 countries, 12 follows great managers as they harness employee engagemen

Roger Courville on Optimizing Your Online Presentations

Standing out in the world of Webinars can be challenging. Content abounds and attention spans are ever-fleeting. Online presentation guru, Roger Courville , discusses how to effectively leverage nuances of the virtual space to convey your message and win audiences. From graphic design to communicati

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the 21st Century Super Corporation

For over 30 years, Rosabeth Moss Kanter has been a leading thinker in strategy, innovation and change management. Among her best-selling influential books are The Change Masters, Men and Women of the Corporation, and Confidence. Her new book is titled SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovat

Ron Hira on the Inside Story of Outsourcing America

One of the hottest, most controversial topics in the news is the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. Outsourced jobs are extending well beyond the manufacturing sector to include white-collar professionals, particularly in information technology, financial services, and customer service

Russell Bishop on Workarounds that Work

Dealing with emergencies and roadblocks is never easy, especially in the recent economy where budgets and staff are stretched thin. An even bigger problem is when the problem solving is stalled by bureaucracy and waiting for permission. Russell Bishop has several stories of employees who, instead of

Sander Flaum on Finding Success in Today’s Job Market

Sander Flaum joins us on Edgewise to discuss his new book The Best Thing That Ever Happened to You: How a Career Reversal Can Reinvigorate Your Life . Flaum covers today’s biggest myths about the job market and how to cope with the emotional devastation of losing a job. He also points out the single

Scott Belsky on His Principles of Success

Scott Belsky , founder and CEO of the Behance Network and author of Making Ideas Happen , joins us on Edgewise to discuss practicing and maintaining his principles of success. Flat organizations such as Behance divide responsibility and ownership over specific tasks and empower people on all levels

Scott Adams on a Humorous Workplace

Scott Adams is the creator of the ubiquitous workplace comic strip Dilbert, a character so iconic that he's become an actual metric for judging workplace happiness. If the walls contain too many Dilbert comics, employees probably relate to the character too much. However, if there are no c

Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney on Fewer, Bigger, Bolder

In Fewer, Bigger, Bolder: From Mindless Expansion to Focused Growth, Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney discuss how companies fall into the trap of stretching themselves thin in attempts to provide more services and products across more markets. They call this practice the “seduction of more.” They