 The Cranky Middle Manager Show #104 Executive Intelligence with Justin Menkes
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July 24, 2007
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #104 (MP3 12.5MB 29:34 Min) To Listen in Your Browser, Double Click the Icon Below To Download For Later, Right Click Here Welcome to our show, gang. 104 conversations wtih people way smarter than me about the things that matter most to managers. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the newsletter. Just drop me an email and put Subscribe in the subject line. Also, if you re interested in doing better web meetings, take a listen to a stealth project i m working on. You can hear them here. Let me know what you think and check out the other articles in my expert page .. Now, if you ever wondered if you have the stuff to escape middle management and shoot to the top, check out our conversation wtih our guest Justin Menkes, about his book, Executive Intelligence. Show Notes 0:00 Welcome to the show today s episode is #104 . is Executive Prowess more DNA than MBA???? I m not talking just leadership Lord knows we ve beaten that topic into the ground. Today s show is dedicated to Catherine the Great. I wander into some politically incorrect territory here but here s a rule..judge the power a woman has by the vehemence of the gossip about her. Okay, nothing you can use in your next job interview but much to ponder . 3:13 The quote of the week is from Baltasar Gracian. You don t want to be overconfident, but you don t want to freak out either. That s what separates the executives from the bitter middle managers .. 4:51 Welcome to Justin Menkes . before tape rolled he asked if I could call him a supergenius seems I over did the joke just a bit, but he s a smart guy. What is Executive Intelligence and how do we find it? 7:47 EI is a mix of talents and traits .. you have to develop, train and work at it ..and you have to have the goods to start with. We talk about Jim Kilts from Gillette, because frankly Jack Welch doesnt need the press. Justin profiles a number of them in the book and it s not about their personality as it shows in this discussion ..a red handle can fend off disaster who knew? 11:50 I confess to being a bit bitter today. Been a bad week .. anyway . what do all these folks have in common and can you bottle it? Justin tells the story of his wife using good executive judgement and his veterinarian not .. she s the super genius in the family as it turns out. So what else is new? 15:40 How do you spot these folks in a job interview? Justin uses PBI Past Behavioral Interviewing. Here s the process and what it means . 22:00 Beware the cult of the CEO .. and the Jabberwock but we re only talking about the CEO today. 24:28 Justin Menkes resources: Creativity by Mihaliy Csikszentmihalyi
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