The Boardroom Metrics Catalyst Podcast
The founders of Boardroom Metrics tap into their network of leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers and friends for wide-ranging insights on business, corporate governance and strategy.
Technology at the Midway
Jim Crocker – Chair of Boardroom Metrics
Karen McElroy – CEO Boardroom Metrics
Doug Fisher – Accomplished Executive, Executive Coach
Summary: IT, Millennials and Professional branding. Karen worries that the midway is falling behind the times.
Topics include:
– Doug on translating experience into podcasts and blogs
– Karen on professional branding and the need to ‘narrow, not widen the net’
– Jim on developing a new website and bridging two audiences
– The Mailbox – A CEO wonders how to evaluate her IT
– Article of the week: Doug’s blog on hiring Millennials
– Boardroom Banter – storied resumes, a culture book and Blackberry falls
Links:
The Alliance by Reid Hoffman of Linkedin http://www.theallianceframework.com/
Doug’s blog on hiring millennials http://www.boardroommetrics.com/blog/millennial-20160705.htm
Culture at Work by Andrew Moore https://www.amazon.com/Culture-at-Work-Andrew-Moore/dp/098756790X
This Week in Tech Podcast with Leo Laporte https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/570?autostart=false
Boardroom Metrics on Consultant Marketing
Freelance or indie consultant? Corporate client? Boardroom Metrics CEO Karen McElroy chats with founder Jim Crocker about their focus on consultant marketing and some key learning from the past seven years.
Link to our Consultant Marketing Program page for Accomplished Executives: http://www.boardroommetrics.com/programs-for-accomplished-executives
Taking The BS Out Of BuSiness
Managing the truth. Doug and Jim discuss honesty in business. Jim reveals that being candid as a leader is easier for him than being candid as a consultant.
Doug’s Blog on business: “Candid? Is Honesty the Best Policy at your Company?”
Doug’s Business Book Shelf
Best business books. After explaining what a PEBKAC is, Doug takes Jim through some of the library he uses to mentor his management teams. Some new, some old. Jim throws in ‘Crossing the Chasm’.
Doug’s blog on the business book shelf.
www.boardroommetrics.com/blog/best-bu….V1q7xZMrL-Y
Like Doug, Tom Peters thinks reading is good for leaders too!
www.strategy-business.com/article/Tom-…-You-to-Read
The CEO Change Master
CEO role in change. Change management expert Gabriella Fermo shares her insights with Jim on CEO’s and change.
Geeks In The Boardroom
Corporate governance. Jim talks with Mark Orlan, Executive Director Information Technology and Services at Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto. Mark recently re-posted an article titled your ‘Next Board Member Should Be a Geek’ from Strategy and Business Magazine. It’s a topic that’s near and dear to Jim’s heart. www.strategy-business.com/article/Your…ek?gko=7758e