The Age of Organizational Effectiveness -- hosted by Charles Chandler
The podcast explores stories about organizations and their performance, as well as relationships between management theory and practice.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 90
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2022
092 – The elephant in the C-suite
The elephant comes with risk. There is an elephant in the C-suite. It has been there a long time, but it has blended into the background and few have questioned its legitimacy or presence. The elepha…
00:12:53 |
Fri 29 Jun 2018
091 – Measurement, meaning, and validity in management
Gary Hamel (London Business School) characterizes management as the technology of human accomplishment. It came into its own in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as the USA entered the new century. Amo…
00:10:48 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
090 – We all manage capitalism now, so let’s agree to fix it
If you are a manager of an organization, whether business, government or non-profit, you currently have a hand in managing capitalism. In a very real sense, you are the visible hand of managerial cap…
00:17:33 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
089 – The Keys to Firm Survival
Given the significant pressures on firms in the real world, what do we know about the traits, characteristics, or management approaches that help ensure that a firm can and will survive within its en…
00:19:36 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
088 – Management as servant, not master
For most of the history of management (beginning in the mid-1800s), organizations included command and control structures and top-down information flow. Managers were viewed as the boss, the big chee…
00:15:30 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
087 – Back to the Pleistocene
Anthropologists tell us that anatomically modern humans (i.e., Homo Sapiens) emerged about 300 thousand years ago during the Pleistocene era on the African savannas. For over 95% of their history (un…
00:11:23 |
Fri 26 Jan 2018
086 – Why does worker productivity remain low?
Worker productivity is the output of goods and services per hour worked. In the broad terms of an industry, productivity is the gross output of industry sales divided by the number of workers allocat…
00:09:18 |
Fri 12 Jan 2018
085 – We are all knowledge workers now
Peter Drucker predicted in his 1959 book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow, that the most valuable assets of a 21st Century institution (business or non-business) would be knowledge workers and their produc…
00:12:28 |
Sun 31 Dec 2017
084 – Three reasons management is broken (but can be fixed)
If we need fresh evidence that management is broken, we only have to look at the 2017 numbers on worker engagement from Gallup. Only 21% of employees strongly agree that they are managed in a way tha…
00:09:39 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
083 – The Organization Whisperer
In this episode, I interview David Childs, Ph.D., who is the author of The Organization Whisperer: The 12 Core Actions that Ripple Excellence through your Organization. Join us as we explore key area…
00:30:02 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
082 – Vending & School Spirit
In this episode, we visit with Matt Miller, founder of School Spirit Vending. Matt heads a business enterprise that uses a franchise model to serve a unique niche at the intersection of vending & sch…
00:24:20 |
Fri 10 Nov 2017
081 – Effective entrepreneurship
In this episode, I explore three ideas about effective entrepreneurship: the most effective entrepreneurs create a platform for others to build upon and benefit from, one that users can interact with…
00:12:30 |
Fri 20 Oct 2017
080 – Adventures in Capitalism
Consider how an upbeat story about a business (Shake Shack) was distorted on social media, eliciting some negative responses in which people question the underlying motivation of management. There se…
00:09:40 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
079 – Claim a niche and serve it
It is said that the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Whether generalist or specialist, an organization needs to claim a niche and serve it so well that the competition is …
00:09:27 |
Fri 22 Sep 2017
078 – The Power of Story
In this episode, I tell three stories which illustrate the power that this form of expression can have. Stories knit threads together, shape how we see things, and derive power from the outcomes that…
00:11:02 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
077 – The outcome economy in technology services
Today I want to focus on a transition happening in the technology services industry driven by some macro trends. This issue appeared on my radar screen while I was looking into the business models us…
00:10:07 |
Fri 25 Aug 2017
076 – The Boomerang Principle (encore)
In this episode, I welcome back Ms. Lee Caraher, CEO of Double-Forte, a public relations and marketing services firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Lee was first on the podcast …
00:26:30 |
Fri 11 Aug 2017
075 – The new assumptions of management
In his 1999 book, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Peter Drucker explored the assumptions that pertain to the study of management. They are important, he wrote, because they “largely deter…
00:09:46 |
Fri 04 Aug 2017
074 – Being intentional about being virtuous
There are three reasons why an organization needs to be intentional about being virtuous. The first is that positive values, virtues, and attributes amplify the demand-side responses to the organizat…
00:17:43 |
Fri 28 Jul 2017
073 – Growing Weeders into Leaders
In this episode, I welcome Jeff McManus to the podcast, who is the Director of Landscape Services for the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Jeff has a new book titled Growing Weeders into Leaders…
00:26:50 |
Fri 21 Jul 2017
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