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Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Listener Questions

• Rajat asked us about the best ways to create management structures in his organization.
• Cathy wondered how we let things go in moments of personal frustration.
• Janet asked advice for forming and sustaining business partnership and alliances.

Resources Mentioned

• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box* by The Arbinger Institute
• Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t* by Verne Harnish
• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business* by Gino Wickman
• Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself* by Mike Michalowicz
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t* by Jim Collins

Related Episodes

• Three Keys to Effective Business Alliances, with Aaron Kent (episode 162)
• How to Create Team Guidelines, with Susan Gerke (episode 192)
• The Truth and Lies of Performance Management, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 361)
• Performance Measurement That Gets Results, with Stacey Barr (episode 419)

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