Tony Award Winning Actor Frank Wood on Quickly Creating High Performing Teams
What's Working with Cam Marston
Release Date: 08/02/2021
What Does Your Accent Say About You? How Important Is It to Your First Impression? Professor Paul Reed and I Discuss.
What's Working with Cam Marston
is the Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Despite the heady title, he's easy to talk to about accents and the impressions they make on others. I read a quote from him in magazine and had to reach out. As a guy that travels a lot, I hear many accents and I have been told many times "you don't sound like you're from Alabama." Paul explains where my accent may have gone and why, and what we think about people when we hear other's accents. Fun, fun conversation. Show Sponsors: Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas...
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Plastic Surgery Is Evolving Quickly. Dr Chris Park Shares What's New.
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Only 187 medical students nationwide graduate into platic surgery any given year. It's an elite field and those that populate it are constantly curious about new procedures, new products, and better outcomes. epitomizes this and continues to bring the newest technologies and treatments to his practice. "You'd be amazed," he said, "what we can do now that we couldn't do a short time ago. You'd be amazed by how non-invasive our treatments have become." Show Sponsors: Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on .
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Managing and Controlling the Vital Documents of Our (And Our Family's) Lives. Martha Underwood Invented a Solution.
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father fell when helping a neighbor clean up after a hurricane. He was in Florida and for a while he was incapacitated. Martha, in Birmingham, needed access to his documents that are so important in critical moments like this but...where were they? Her story is not unfamiliar. We all have documents that family, doctors, accountants, lawyers may need at critical moments. Martha has a background in technology and has created a safe place to hold documents with secure access to chosen people called . Hear how it works and what it could mean for you and me. This month's deep dive. Show...
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Stanford Professor and Kaiser Permanente Hospital Executive Robert Pearl discusses AI and the Future of Medicine
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AI was predicted to change medicine a long time ago. Little happened. believes that time has come. A author, a , Stanford professor, physician, and former leader of The Permanente Medical Group in California and then leader of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Robert Pearl has unique insight into healthcare due to the transformations he's led in both organizations. AI is now learning on its own, and Dr Pearl predicts this ability is what will begin a truly radical healthcare transformation. This is worth a listen to greater understand AI's impact, its ramifications, and what you can...
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Doing What You Love and Trying to Get Noticed: Kate Teague is Fighting for Attention In the Nashville Music Scene
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is committed to making music. She can't help it; it's what she does. She lives in the hyper-comptitive music scene of Nashville where every street corner has an aspiring musician or singer-songwriter trying to get noticed and make it big. Kate is doing the things necessary for her career to catch on fire, from performing to writing to shooting music videos (featuring her non-actor father in a role to save money) to keeping a regular job to pay the bills. How does one get the attention in the Nashville music scene? You'll enjoy hearing Kate tell us and how struggling musicians find a way to...
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If You Could Pick a Career Based in What you Enjoyed and What You Were Good At, What Would You Do?
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Friend of What's Working, , is back to update us on his journey. After selling the family business about sixteen months ago, Brent had the luxury to spend time and consider . Not ready to stop working, Brent evaluated what he liked doing and what he was good at and made his decision. Hear how he assessed his talent and made his choices and what lessons you and I can take from his journey. Show Sponsors: Buy What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two Hundred Episodes at .
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"Begin." A Simple Message from Consultant, Author, and Business Leader Joe Calloway.
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It's simple. To do anything you must begin. understands that one of the many barriers to success for an entrepreneur or any business leader is simply to get started. To begin. We can create lists of reasons to delay, to wait, to push off till tomorrow. Success, however, starts no other way than to begin. Meet Joe Calloway. Hear his enthusiasm. Let it take hold. And lets all...begin. Show Sponsors: Find my book outlining the ten best ideas through the first 200 episodes of "What's Working," called What Works, at .
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AI + Logistics. Shashank Rao Leads Auburn University's Harbert College of Business in Combining the Two
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AI is changing everything it touches. Why not supply chains and logistics, too? leads teams of students working with companies to combine the two in unique ways. Shashank gives me some insights into the projects they're working on and what the results have been and how AI will continue to impact logistics. It's fascinating stuff to an outsider like me. To Shashank and his team, though, it's just another day at work. Shashank, by the way, is the Jim W. Thompson Professor at the Department of Supply Chain Management at . Show Sponsors: Buy my book on Amazon.com.
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Bringing a Better Beef to Your Table - Joey Mason of Mason Hills Farms Saw A Need for a High-end, Premium Product
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Not being beholden to tradition or industry norms has helped Joey Mason make a premium provider of beef for the discerning consumer. His cattle are grass fed and grain finished on his own farm near Grand Bay, Alabama. Never farming before, Joey has learned the business from the ground up, from how to prepare the cattle to how to process and package them to retain the best flavor in the meat. He's now selling it direct to the consumer and is adding a line of ready to cook burgers. And with the scraps? A premium dog food. Joey (like his cattle!) is all in. Show Sponsors:
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The Art of Leading a Team of Craftsmen - Hastings Read Runs a High-End Custom Woodworking Shop
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A circuitous route delivered from England to Mobile, Alabama where he learned custom woodworking after a successful career in management consulting. Today he leads the team at as they build beautiful doors, windows, and shutters, employing a team a craftsmen who take great pride in their work. Deadlines matter but the work of a craftsman should not be rushed. Hastings details his story, how he's applying his lessons as a consultant to his own small business, and how he leads a small team that builds exquisite products. Show Sponsors: Find my book, What Works, at .
info_outlineYou've seen Frank Wood on TV or on the movie screen or on a Broadway stage. He's busy with his craft. And the process he and a cast go through as they take on a new play is the epitome of how to form a high-performing team. It involves listening to fellow cast members (teammates), taking direction from the director (team leader), taking a strong position on your character (your role in the team), and being eager to be redirected and refocused if the director feels there is something better you can contribute.