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07.04.2022
132 – The organization of the biosphere
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Fred Spier, a retired senior lecturer in big history at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We discuss his recent book, How the Biosphere Works (2022). Fred was previously on the podcast back...
06.03.2022
131 — Change your organization
In this episode, I am joined by Lindsey Agness, CEO of The Change Corporation (UK). We discuss her book, Change Your Business with NLP. Connect with Lindsey at TheChangeCorporation.com Email: [email protected] Charles G. Chandler, Ph.D. — Host of The Age...
05.02.2022
130 – Project effectiveness in international development
In this episode, I discuss a way to think about effectiveness in development projects & programs that could allow international development to deliver on its original promises of development effectiveness. I discuss Albert Hirschman’s ‘hiding hand’ that veils difficulties as...
04.07.2022
129 – Landscape 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). We discuss his 2017 book, Growing Weeders into Leaders: Leadership Lessons from the Ground Level, and...
03.04.2022
128 – Validity in management
Gary Hamel (formerly of the London Business School) has characterized management as the technology of human accomplishment. Management came into its own in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as the USA entered the new century. Among the traditional long-standing...
02.03.2022
127 – Organizations in ‘Big History’
You may have heard the term ‘Big History’. It comes from historian David Christian, at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has a TED talk describing what his team has been up to with Big History, a project that has...
01.01.2022
126 – Predicting 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 environment? Some might think this is a...
12.02.2021
125 – The evolution of training
In this episode, I interview Isaac Tolpin, who is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of ConveYour.com, a micro-learning platform. We cover several topics related to the role of training in organizations. Isaac is a knowledgeable observer in the sector and...
10.29.2021
124 – Executive cognition
In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Barry Borgerson, who is the author of The 2Selfs Revolution (2019). Barry is an executive coach who has written extensively on cognition at the executive level. We discuss his latest book and...
09.30.2021
123 – Managing capitalism, one organization at a time
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 capitalism. Free market capitalism is long gone....
08.31.2021
122 – Adaptive action
In this episode, I am joined by Glenda Eoyang, who along with her coauthor (Royce Holladay), wrote the book, Adaptive Action: Leveraging uncertainty in your organization. Glenda is the founding director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. We discuss her...
07.31.2021
121 – Convergence
In this episode, I am joined by Deborah Westphal, author of the book: Convergence: Technology, Business, and the Human-Centric Future. Deborah has been helping major companies craft their approach to a human-centered future for 30 years. She is a passionate...
06.30.2021
120 – Reconomics
In this episode, I talk with Storm Cunningham, author of the book, Reconomics: The path to resilient prosperity. Storm is the Executive Director of the RECONOMICS Institute in Washington, D.C. (The Society of Revitalization & Resilience Professionals) and editor of REVITALIZATION (The...
05.28.2021
119 – The invisible GEMBA
Today I talk with Sam Yankelevitch, author of the book, Walking the Invisible GEMBA: Discover the hidden link between communication and quality. ‘Gemba’ is a Japanese word for the real place where the action happens — or the place where...
04.30.2021
118 – Out of the African 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 (until the present day), modern humans have been exclusively hunter/gathers,...
03.31.2021
117- The power in storytelling
In this episode, I offer three stories that illustrate the power of storytelling. Stories can be used to knit threads together, shape how we see things, and derive power from the outcomes that they describe. If you are going to...
02.28.2021
116 – The management technology your organization needs
Today we are at Episode 116 and I am calling it “The management technology your organization needs” [as a footnote, much of today’s content was originally released in May 2017 as Episode 65]. At the end of today’s episode, I...
01.30.2021
115 – Anyone can lead change
In this episode, I am joined by Adam Braus — an author, consultant, and university professor who lives in San Francisco, California. He focuses on change, innovation, and new forms of leadership. We talk about his recent book, Leading Change...
12.31.2020
114 – Whispering your organization to health
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 areas of focus for any organization. The twelve core...
11.30.2020
113 – The Future of Humanity
In this episode, I am joined by Fred Spier, a retired senior lecturer in big history at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We discuss his most recent book, Big History and the Future of Humanity. Fred describes how complexity...
10.30.2020
112 – Does HR contribute to organizational effectiveness?
In this episode, I welcome Dr. Linda Holbeche to the podcast. Linda is the author of several books, but today we discuss her 2017 book, Organizational Effectiveness: A Critical Take on the HR Contribution. The book offers a historical narrative...
09.29.2020
111 – Noble purpose
Today I am joined by author Lisa Earle McLeod who has written two books in the last few years on ‘noble purpose.’ Much of her early career was spent in the sales department of a large firm, but in 2001...
08.28.2020
110 – Freedom management (encore)
In this episode, I interview Professor Luca Solari of the University of Milan (Italy) who has written a book, Freedom Management: How leaders can stay afloat in a sea of social connections. The book focuses on how organizations can give their...
07.31.2020
109 – A philosophy of organizations
Today I am joined by a philosopher. Jean-Philippe Deranty is a Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research focuses mainly on social issues, particularly those related to work and employment. In this episode, we discuss philosophy...
06.26.2020
108 – Entrepreneur in Africa
In this episode, I am joined by Marek Zmyslowski, author of the book, Chasing Black Unicorns: How Building the Amazon of Africa Put Me on Interpol's Most Wanted List (2019). Marek is a Polish-born entrepreneur and executive, focused on online...
05.29.2020
107 – Great leaders create great workplaces
In this episode, I am joined by David Veech, author of the book, Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces (2017). David teaches leaders how to love, learn, and let go. He thinks that work should be fun, exciting, and...
04.30.2020
106 – Big projects in complex environments
In this episode, I interview Bob Prieto, a senior executive at Strategic Program Management LLC, where he is Chairman & CEO. Bob focuses on achieving capital efficiency in large engineering and construction programs and organizations. He is the author of...
03.27.2020
105 – Fundraising for nonprofits
Today I am joined by Martin Leifeld, author of the book, Five Minutes for Fundraising. Martin directed the raising of over $500 million dollars during his 24 years of fundraising leadership in the St. Louis region. Martin’s book is a...
02.27.2020
104 – The Regenerative Business
In this episode, I welcome another guest author, Carol Sanford, to discuss her book, The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes (2017). For four decades, Carol has worked with great leaders of successful businesses such as...
01.31.2020
103 – Adopting a collaborative stance
In this episode, I welcome a guest author from the UK to the podcast. Paul Skinner is the author of Collaborative Advantage: How collaboration beats competition as a strategy for success. Paul believes that collaboration is a worthwhile stance because...
12.27.2019
102 – Managing the next 10,000 years
Today’s episode is called “Managing the Next 10,000 years.” That could be a tall order, since managing the next 10 years will be challenging due to expected global climate disruptions, but stay with me and you may be intrigued. Civilization...
11.29.2019
101 – When bureaucracy was an innovation
Bureaucracy was an innovation in the mid-1800s, as the world changed from a traditional society to one driven by a new sense of rational-legalism, largely driven by the Protestant ethic. Max Weber, a German sociologist, described the times in his...
10.31.2019
100 – Your mission, vision, values, and offerings … in 10 minutes
Today the podcast has reached a milestone, at episode 100. Starting back in February 2016, it has taken a little over 3.5 years to get to this point. I hope you have been one of those who have come along...
09.27.2019
099 – The view from the bottleneck
For all practical purposes, the year 1800 was the beginning of the Anthropocene, the age when mankind embarked upon the industrial revolution and great acceleration in economic and population growth began. Yet in a new theory (BioScience, 2018), some conservationists...
08.30.2019
098 – The Purpose of a Corporation
This month, August 2019, the Business Roundtable issued a new overall statement of purpose for a corporation, signed by the CEOs of almost 200 of the largest US corporations. This is a big deal because the previous 1997 statement from...
07.26.2019
097 – Finding clarity in business
In this episode, I am joined by Dolores Hirschmann as we discuss the IDEA method for finding clarity in business. Dolores is a STRATEGIST, COACH, and BUSINESS OWNER. Her focus is on helping clients find their ‘core idea’ on which...
06.28.2019
096 – The freight market
This episode continues our occasional series in which we visit a business to try to understand how it works. Today, our guide will be Mandy Barton who is President of Barton Logistics. Mandy shares an interesting story which serves as...
05.31.2019
095 – Reinventing management
In this episode, I talk about the need to reinvent management and suggest a way forward to achieve it. I like to think of management as a technology that makes all other technologies productive (if done right). Yet, today’s dominant...
08.31.2018
094 – The role of training in organizations
In this episode, I interview Isaac Tolpin, who is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of ConveYour.com, a micro-learning platform. We cover several topics related to the role of training in organizations. Isaac is a knowledgeable observer in the sector and provides...
07.31.2018
093 – Management by Positive Organizational Effectiveness
In this episode, I join Kendall Lott, host of the PM Point of View podcast, which originates from the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Project Management Institute. Kendall invited me to come on his podcast to explain the new management...
06.29.2018
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 elephant I am referring to...
06.01.2018
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. Among the traditional long-standing factors of production (land,...
04.20.2018
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 capitalism. Free market capitalism is long gone....
03.02.2018
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 environment? Some might think this is a...
02.09.2018
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 cheese, the man, or master within a hierarchical system of control....
01.26.2018
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 (until the present day), modern humans have been exclusively hunter/gathers,...
01.12.2018
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 allocated to produce the output. After World...
12.31.2017
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 productivity. In this episode, I explore this idea, and how...
12.08.2017
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 that motivates them to...
11.24.2017
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 areas of focus for any organization. The twelve core...

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The Age of Organizational Effectiveness -- hosted by Charles Chandler episodes:

132 – The organization of the biosphere

131 — Change your organization

130 – Project effectiveness in international development

129 – Landscape leaders

128 – Validity in management

127 – Organizations in ‘Big History’

126 – Predicting firm survival

125 – The evolution of training

124 – Executive cognition

123 – Managing capitalism, one organization at a time

122 – Adaptive action

121 – Convergence

120 – Reconomics

119 – The invisible GEMBA

118 – Out of the African Pleistocene

117- The power in storytelling

116 – The management technology your organization needs

115 – Anyone can lead change

114 – Whispering your organization to health

113 – The Future of Humanity

112 – Does HR contribute to organizational effectiveness?

111 – Noble purpose

110 – Freedom management (encore)

109 – A philosophy of organizations

108 – Entrepreneur in Africa

107 – Great leaders create great workplaces

106 – Big projects in complex environments

105 – Fundraising for nonprofits

104 – The Regenerative Business

103 – Adopting a collaborative stance

102 – Managing the next 10,000 years

101 – When bureaucracy was an innovation

100 – Your mission, vision, values, and offerings … in 10 minutes

099 – The view from the bottleneck

098 – The Purpose of a Corporation

097 – Finding clarity in business

096 – The freight market

095 – Reinventing management

094 – The role of training in organizations

093 – Management by Positive Organizational Effectiveness

092 – The elephant in the C-suite

091 – Measurement, meaning, and validity in management

090 – We all manage capitalism now, so let’s agree to fix it

089 – The Keys to Firm Survival

088 – Management as servant, not master

087 – Back to the Pleistocene

086 – Why does worker productivity remain low?

085 – We are all knowledge workers now

084 – Three reasons management is broken (but can be fixed)

083 – The Organization Whisperer