Do you feel chained to your cubicle? Independence Can Be Yours!
Eric Pennington
A perfect podcast for the 4th of July! Joining us for a Leadership Edition of Total Picture Radio is Eric Pennington, Founder and Chief Idea Spreader of Epic Living, LLC, a leadership development organization that helps organizations and individuals discover their leadership, management and personal growth potential. Eric has over fifteen years of practical management and leadership experience inside Fortune 500 and charitable organizations. He's author of Waking Up In Corporate America: The Seven Secrets That Opened My Eyes. The book is a field guide for those navigating a career in corporate America.
Massachusetts Maintains Lead as Nations Top State in Technology and Science, According to Milken Institute
Kevin Klowden
Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton. Kevin Klowden is a Managing Economist at the Milken Institute. His research focuses on the roles played in regional economics by demographic and spatial factors including distribution of resources, business locations and movement of labor, and how these factors are affected by and interact with public policy. Kevin participated in the recent Milken Institute report which lists Massachusetts as being in "the best position of any state to achieve high-quality economic growth thanks to its vast array of technology and science assets."
According to the report, regional competition for technology industries has increased since the last release of the Index in 2004. Not only are states vying with each other for human capital and resources, but countries like China and India are increasing the competition on a global level.
China's Talent Crunch - A podcast with Holly Thompson, i4cp
"The Economist found that among 600 chief executive officers of multinationals, a shortage of qualified staff ranked highest of all business concerns in China"
Holly Thompson
Total Picture Radio has formed a strategic alliance with i4cp, the Institute for Corporate Productivity, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article. Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Holly Thompson, Senior Research analyst with i4cp. Her background includes teaching Human Resource Management at the University of Tampa to undergraduates and in the M.B.A. program. Additionally, shes worked with numerous management consulting firms, and serves as an Executive Coach, working with the University of Tampas Focused Leadership Program. Holly has a BS in Business and Psychology from Trinity University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the University of South Carolina.
Wanted: Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-as-Usual!
Curve the bullet of your career.
Dr. Kevin Freiberg
No, this is not a Angelina Jolie film. However, if you're surrounded by cube-dwelling drones and looking for an escape, we met a husband and wife team that just might be able to help you: Kevin and Jackie Freiberg. And here's the good part. You don't have to crash cars, shoot the wings off of flies, jump out of the window of your office building, or jump off of trains traveling 1000 miles an hour in slow motion. Nope. All you gotta do is invest a little time to listen to this interview and buy a book:
Boom! is an invitation to join a revolution of people who refuse to be victims and choose to take charge of their lives at work! According to Kevin, you can become a person who is truly indispensable to your family, to your business and to the world at large-or you can be a person who is hardly missed. Its your choice!
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Nip - Tuck. Unsettling Facts About the Impact of physical attractiveness in the Workplace
Dr. Gordon Patzer
I first learned about Gordon Patzer's new book, "Looks, Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined" reading Penelope Trunk's blog - a posting titled "Plastic Surgery is the Next Must Have Career Tool. Maybe." What Dr. Patzer has documented are facts we've all assumed - but didn't really want to believe. Well, guess what? All of those assumptions are true. Short? Overweight? Less than good looking? It's cost you. From day one.
Dr. Patzer has devoted the last 30 years to investigating this unsettling phenomenon for both women and men, and how it touches every part of our lives. His book reveals not only its impact on romance, but also on family dynamics, performance in school, career, courtroom proceedings, politics and government. Looks is the first book to explore how the power of beauty affects both sexes and how the rise of reality TV shows, cosmetic surgery, and celebrity culture have contributed to our overall obsession with being beautiful.
Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel edition of Total Picture Radio. Joining us today - Chris Russell, Founder & Chief Jobcaster at Jobs in Pods: the web's first ever audio job board where employers can podcast their jobs. Chris is the owner of AllCountyJobs.com, LLC a fast growing network of local job boards and publisher of job search tools & services - including Job in Pods which advertises jobs and promotes employer brands through audio podcast interviews.
Chris blogs at http://www.secretsofthejobhunt.com. Chris also started CHIMBY a vertical search engine that lets you search over 400 career advice sites at once. Chimby crawls the sites of career coaches, career blogs and other media sources in order to provide the best answers to your career advice questions. Chris attended and exhibited at the Society of Human Resource Managers - SHRM - 60th Annual Conference and Expo in Chicago last week, and we wanted a first-hand report from the conference. So, here it is!
The Brazen Careerist joins us for another truth-telling session.
Penelope Trunk
Penelope is in the jet stream of career advice, soaring miles above the constant noise of useless, outdated information and self-styled career experts.
Just a few topics from Penelope's popular blog: 10 tips for time management in a multitasking world - 5 steps to taming materialism, from an accidental expert - Blogging essential for a good career - How much money do you need to be happy? Hint: Your sex life matters more.
And here's a sample of a recent post titled: The hardest part of my job is that everyone lies about parenting "Take a look at the spread in People magazine of Jennifer Lopez and her one-month-old twins. The photos are so elegant that at first I thought it was a parody. But in fact, it is mommy porn: the visual fantasy of what being a working mom could be."
"People blogging about their careers are the top performers" -