This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
My Appearance on "The Cranky Middle Manager" Podcast -- A couple weeks ago, I had an interesting chat with Wayne Turmel, host of the Cranky Middle Manager blog and podcast, one of the few management-related podcasts out there that I not only subscribe to, but heartily recommend.
The subject was supposed to be Theory of Constraints, but he also got me into talking about the differences between working in the externally constrained Fortune 100 environment versus an internally constrained fast growing company with about 50 employees. He had a recorder going and tells me that the podcast of our conversation should be available this week is now available.
If you listen to the podcast, which I hope you do, you'll notice that I recommend a few resources, both book- and web-based. They included...
A book I should have mentioned... Deming and Goldratt by Domenico Lepore and Oded Cohen -- A great introduction to TOC concepts and thinking processes.
If you're visiting my Focused Performance weblog for the first time as a result of listening to the podcast (or if you've been doing so for a while, but haven't dug into posts from before your initial visit or RSS subscription), I encourage you to not only peruse the recent postings here, but also check out the "Best of the FP Blog Archive" over in the right hand column. Recent postings have been of the "link and brief comment" kind. The older pieces in the "best of" list o' links have a lot more "meat" to them. In addition, if you're a first time visitor, you might want to wander beyond the blog to the bigger papers found in the site's Project Management section.
Thanks go out to Wayne for the opportunity to be included in his podcast offerings. Add this to my appearances on Jeopardy and The Ed Sullivan Show, and one could say I'm getting around, media-wise.
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