"Drucker on the Dial" is a diverse interview program on management and leadership that takes inspiration from today's headlines as well as the teachings of Peter Drucker, the man BusinessWeek said invented management.
Drucker & Them – May 2014
Guests Bob Buford and Joe Maciariello discuss Peter Drucker's unique skill as a mentor.
And, Time.com columnist Rick Wartzman shares an open letter to his daughter, Emma, who will graduate from college next week.
5/9/2014 • 37 minutes, 29 seconds
Question Marks – APRIL 2014
Guests Warren Berger and Luz Santana discuss the art of asking questions and the power of inquiry.
4/11/2014 • 47 minutes, 58 seconds
Creative Sparks - MARCH 2014
Guests discuss the unique challenges of managing creativity, as well as the role that creativity plays in effectively managing organizations.
3/14/2014 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 45 seconds
Generation Next - FEBRUARY 2014
Phalana Tiller talks with two guests about the challenges and opportunities that arise as people from multiple generations find themselves colleagues on the job.
The first guest is J. Maureen Henderson, founder of Secret Agent Research, a content marketing and media-relations training firm, and blogger at GenerationMeh and Forbes. Tiller also chats with Jeanne Meister, a human resources specialist and the co-author of The 2020 Workplace.
And Time.com columnist Rick Wartzman writes about a new study on Gen Z—those 17 years old and younger.
2/14/2014 • 36 minutes, 3 seconds
Managing the Metropolis - JANUARY 2014
Phalana Tiller discusses some of the ways that leaders are responding to the management challenges—and opportunities—facing today’s midsize American city.
Guests include: Mark Funkhouser of the Governing Institute; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; the Brookings Institution’s Bob Wiessbourd; and Julie Bosland of the National League of Cities.
1/10/2014 • 48 minutes, 7 seconds
On Managing Complexity - DECEMBER 2013
Participants from the 2013 Global Peter Drucker Forum discuss "Managing Complexity."
Guests include: John Hagel III, Director of the Deloitte Center for the Edge; innovation, media and business expert, Don Tapscott; and Tim Brown, president and CEO of the global design consultancy IDEO.
12/14/2013 • 42 minutes, 6 seconds
Better To Give - NOVEMBER 2013
Author and Wharton professor Adam Grant, Chairman of Avon Products, Chairman of Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute at Northwestern University and former CEO of Campbell Soup Company Doug Conant, and Susan Wolf Ditkoff, the co-head of the Philanthropy Practice at the nonprofit consultancy The Bridgespan Group lend unique views to the role that giving plays in individual and organizational culture and performance.
11/13/2013 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 49 seconds
In It For the Long Term - OCTOBER 2013
Conversations with participants of the Drucker Institute Forum on Long-Termism discuss how to encourage more long-term thinking in the corporate community. Guests include: Lynn Stout of Cornell University, Jason Voss of the CFA Institute, Jack Bergstrand of Brand Velocity, Bill Densmore of the Rules Change Project, Miguel Padró of the Aspen Institute, Roger Martin of the University of Toronto, Rick Wartzman of the Drucker Institute and Michael Kleeman of the University of California at San Diego and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.
10/24/2013 • 57 minutes, 38 seconds
Fear and Courage At Work - DECEMBER 2011
Tom Rieger and Thomas Tighe discuss the roles of fear and courage in a successful organization.
10/1/2013 • 48 minutes, 8 seconds
The ABC’s Of P&G - NOVEMBER 2011
Procter & Gamble’s Craig Wynett and A.G. Lafley discuss executive leadership and managing innovation.
10/1/2013 • 46 minutes, 6 seconds
Shifting Gears - OCTOBER 2011
Marc Freedman of Encore (formerly Civic Ventures) and US Poet Laureate Philip Levine discuss finding meaning in one’s life and in one’s work.
10/1/2013 • 47 minutes, 6 seconds
Strength to Strength - SEPTEMBER 2011
Frances Hesselbein and Marcus Buckingham discuss the unique strengths that individuals bring to organizations, and how to leverage those strengths for the good of the whole.
10/1/2013 • 48 minutes, 13 seconds
From Top To Bottom - AUGUST 2011
Justin Menkes and Paul Adler discuss what makes an effective organization.
10/1/2013 • 48 minutes, 5 seconds
Beyond The Comfort Zone - JULY 2011
Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross and Scott Keller of McKinsey & Company discuss the practice of management across sectors.
10/1/2013 • 48 minutes, 2 seconds
Connecting The Dots - APRIL 2012
Sherry Turkle and Lisa Gansky explore how connectedness through technology is impacting our lives and our organizations.
10/1/2013 • 46 minutes, 10 seconds
Success and Significance - MARCH 2012
Charles and Liz Handy, along with Doug Rauch, explore the ways that they’ve all continued to find meaning and fulfillment many decades into their working lives.
10/1/2013 • 48 minutes, 23 seconds
Trust Me - FEBRUARY 2012
Guests Ron Ashkenas and Paul Zak explore how instincts and brain chemistry intersect with trust and organizational behavior.
10/1/2013 • 47 minutes, 51 seconds
Prospects + Progress = Prosperity - JANUARY 2012
Guests George Anders and Teresa Amabile discuss how to find great talent for your team and how to grow that talent into something even more exceptional.
10/1/2013 • 47 minutes, 39 seconds
The Entrepreneurial Spirit - SEPTEMBER 2013
Host Phalana Tiller talks with international entrepreneurs at the 2013 Endeavor Global Entrepreneur Summit.
Guests include: Carlo Gonzaga of Taste Holdings, Phaedra Chrousos of Daily Secret, Sally Buberman of Wormhole IT, Raúl Maldonado and Mois Cherem Arana of Enova, Melih Ödemis of Yemek Sepeti, Hervé Cuviliez of Diwanee, Raúl Polakof of Scanntech and Bernardo Lustosa of ClearSale.
10/1/2013 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 10 seconds
MOOC Mania - AUGUST 2013
Guests Charles Morrissey, Elly Schofield and Luminita Crivet shed light on how MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)are transforming the ways that people access learning.
10/1/2013 • 46 minutes, 19 seconds
The Joy of Management - MAY 2012
Hotelier Chip Conley of Joie de Vivre Hospitality shares his philosophy on workplace satisfaction and his latest book Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness and Success. And CEO and self-proclaimed Chief Happiness Officer of online retailer Zappos, Tony Hsieh, about the culture at his company and his book Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose. The conversations explore the notion that work and happiness should be inextricably linked.
7/26/2013 • 48 minutes, 4 seconds
Customer Cues - JUNE 2012
Phalana Tiller talks with Bloomingdale’s president and Chief Operating Officer Tony Spring about the company’s continual efforts at keeping an eye on what their customers value. Tiller also chats with Ava DuVernay, the award-winning director of the films “I Will Follow” and “Middle of Nowhere” and the founder of the distribution company AFFRM (the African American Film Festival Releasing Movement).
The conversations explore the central role of the “customer” in these two very different industries.
7/26/2013 • 46 minutes, 7 seconds
Shift Work - JULY 2012
Phalana Tiller talks with Jody Greenstone Miller, co-founder and CEO of Business Talent Group which specializes in matching companies with interim executives. We also hear a rare audio recording of Peter Drucker on the mobility of knowledge workers.
Together, these segments explore how recent and historical shifts in the American economy have opened up new individual choices about where, when and with whom to work.
7/26/2013 • 42 minutes, 5 seconds
Thank You for Listening - AUGUST 2012
Rohit Bhargava, professor of global marketing at Georgetown University and the author of Likeonomics, and Peter Post, director of the Emily Post Institute and the author of five etiquette books, including The Etiquette Advantage in Business, explore the roles that having good manners and being likeable play in any well-functioning organization.
7/26/2013 • 48 minutes, 16 seconds
Labor Pains - SEPTEMBER 2012
Henry Farber, professor of economics at Princeton University and author of several landmark studies on the declining stability of employment, and Laphonza Butler, president of the SEIU’s United Long Term Care Workers’ Union, explore the shifting trends in job tenure and the changing role of organized labor.
7/26/2013 • 48 minutes, 11 seconds
Bottoms Up - OCTOBER 2012
Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN and the author of the bestselling book HOW, and Paul Green Jr., who helps run the Self-Management Institute at the Morning Star Company, the world’s largest tomato processor, discuss how organizations can give their workers a maximum amount of autonomy and, in the process, deliver great results.
7/26/2013 • 48 minutes, 11 seconds
The Games We Play - NOVEMBER 2012
Aaron Dignan, cofounder and CEO of Undercurrent and the author of the 2011 book The Game Frame and Jenova Chen, the founder and creative director of ThatGameCompany discuss how gaming can positively influence creativity and productivity in the ways we work and learn.
7/26/2013 • 48 minutes, 17 seconds
Postcards from Vienna - DECEMBER 2012
Phalana Tiller talks about the future of Capitalism with Drucker Forum participants including: Adrian Wooldridge of the Economist; Unilever CEO Paul Polman; management professor Lynda Gratton; and authors Tammy Erickson and Deepa Prahalad.
7/26/2013 • 56 minutes, 6 seconds
Good Medicine - JANUARY 2013
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and Rob Curry, CEO of Citrus Valley Health Partners, discussing an area that, at both the macro and micro levels, is one of the most important touching all of our lives: healthcare.
7/26/2013 • 48 minutes
Give Smarter - FEBRUARY 2013
Tom Tierney of the Bridgespan Group and co-author of the book Give Smart, as well as writer and consultant David Hunter, on the ways that nonprofits and their funders can achieve better results.
7/26/2013 • 47 minutes, 52 seconds
Tackling the Market - MARCH 2013
First, host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank, CEO and co-founder of Under Armour, about how the athletic apparel company has differentiated itself in the marketplace. We then bring you a gem from the Drucker Archives: a recording of the late Peter Drucker from one of his last classroom appearances.
7/26/2013 • 46 minutes, 56 seconds
Conscious Capitalism - APRIL 2013
Conversations from the 2013 Conscious Capitalism conference. Guests include: Kip Tindell of the Container Store, Laura Roberts of Pantheon Enterprises, Casey Sheahan of Patagonia, Tara Sheahan of Conscious Global Leadership, John Mackey of Whole Foods, author Raj Sisodia, Tom Gardner of the Motley Fool, Jessica Agneessens of Whole Food’s Academy for Conscious Leadership and Darden School professor Ed Freeman.
7/26/2013 • 46 minutes, 19 seconds
Wither the Cube Farm - MAY 2013
Diane Hoskins, co-CEO of Gensler, and Greg Parsons, vice-president of the New Landscape of Work at Herman Miller, on how their companies help others achieve better outcomes through well-designed work environments.
7/26/2013 • 47 minutes, 40 seconds
A Network For Good - JUNE 2013
Conversations from the Omidyar Network Executive Forum. Guests include: Premal Shah of Kiva, Bob Pilon of One.org, South African poet G.O., Chris and David Mikkelsen of Refugees United, Kiva Borrower June Hardin, David Wachtel of Endeavor Global, David Simms of Opportunity International, Richard Wardell of Landesa and Adam Rifkin of PandaWhale.
7/26/2013 • 41 minutes, 3 seconds
What's The Story? - JULY 2013
Guests discuss the role that stories and storytelling can have in driving behavior change at both the organizational and societal levels. Guests include: Marshall Ganz, Jorge Barraza, Brian Hardwick, R.P. Siegel and Roger Saillant.
7/18/2013 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 39 seconds
The Importance of Work - JUNE 2011
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Geoffrey Brewer, editorial director of the Gallup Press and co-editor of Decade of Change: Managing in Times of Uncertainty. She also chats with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford who recently edited the literary anthology Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece on a new model for refocusing healthcare on results rather than activity.
7/17/2013 • 48 minutes, 56 seconds
Design Thinking, Collective Action and Peter Drucker - MAY 2011
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, discusses his book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. And James Quigley, global CEO of professional services giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, chats about his book As One: Individual Action, Collective Power. Lastly, Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece on Cisco and "smart growth."