Something better than the morning DJ rant

I have found one of the best pod­casts for busi­ness and mar­ket­ing ideas. Har­vard Busi­ness Review has a 9-12 minute “Ideacast” once a week high­light­ing today’s con­trib­u­tors to the Har­vard Busi­ness Review or cur­rent best­selling busi­ness books. It’s a fan­tas­tic con­ver­sa­tion starter and pro­vides some­thing to think about instead of the DJ crank call­ing someone’s grand­mother with a scam.

Here’s the URL: HBR Idea­cast. You can also sub­scribe within iTunes.

Here’s some of the past topics to give you a sample of the topics they discuss:

How to Protect Your Job in a Recession

Diane Coutu dis­cusses steps to pro­tect your job through this cur­rent reces­sion. It’s not simply focus­ing and work­ing harder but chang­ing your atti­tude and mindset.

Pixar and Collective Creativity

Ed Cat­mull, Cofounder of Pixar, talks about how they foster a unique cul­ture of cre­ativ­ity at Pixar and how other people must adjust to their unique com­pany atmos­phere in order to be successful.

Singapore Airlines’ Winning Strategy

Har­vard pro­fes­sor Rohit Desh­pande dis­cusses while domes­tic air­lines are cut­ting costs by elim­i­nat­ing ser­vice, Sina­pore is build­ing a prof­itable air­line by adding new ser­vices to flights.