Steve Heckler is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and leader at companies including IBM, AT&T, and Activision. He's delivered management training at companies that include DirecTV, and is the former president of the Society for Information Management and of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, as well as a past executive board member of the Southern California chapter of the ACLU. We discuss Steve's new book, So... You Want To Be A Manager, and cover topics including hiring and terminating; mission and values; the importance of communication; and common pitfalls for new managers.The audio and video in this episode is a bit irregular, but the conversation was wonderful nonetheless. If you find it useful, please consider subscribing and sharing.

In this episode, Jeff talks to author and Harvard Business School professor Dr. Max Bazerman. Dr. Bazerman is the author of such seminal works as Judgment in Managerial Decision Making; The Power of Noticing: What The Best Leaders See; Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop; and his newest book Negotiation: The Game Has Changed. We talk about how COVID and the move to online teaching changed the game of teaching negotiation; ethical negotiations; what still surprises and challenges Dr. Bazerman about negotiations; things you can do now to improve your negotiations; Dr. Bazerman's journey to veganism; the English Premier football league; and other topics.

In this episode, Jeff reflects on 2024 and plans for 2025, and shares some of his favorite habits that help him show up as a better person and leader for others.

Happy new year to you and yours! The best is yet to come!