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The Allan Handelman Show
For February 7, 2010
The Allan Handelman Show deals with all issues relevant to the Rock Culture, not just music. Rock Stars, newsmakers, pop culture icons and always the most amazing people in the world. Hear all sides of the story and listen to a variety of media. Then, make up your own mind.
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It's the Talk Show for people who don't even listen to talk shows. This week you will be glued to the radio as Allan and his guests discuss the things you talk about with your friends when you're alone.
This week, Allan welcomes Meg Whitman, former CEO of ebay who is now running for Governor of California.
Also this week, David Draiman of DISTURBED in his 3rd appearance on the Allan Handelman Show. Tonight’s show is MUSIC INTENSIVE, the perfect show after the Super Bowl. This week's show was never heard network-wide do to satellite problems at the time. That very same problem prevented us from getting a clean recording of what was a truly amazing show with David Draiman. We couldn’t even re-run the show because we didn’t have a high quality recording. Tonight, you will hear this long lost broadcast digitally restored from a recently discovered copy and with all new music added. Turn it up!
MEG WHITMAN was the CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008, growing the company into an unparalleled engine of global e-commerce. Her thirty-year career includes helping many companies, including Stride Rite, Bain & Company, Procter & Gamble, Disney, and Hasbro. In 2009, she announced her candidacy for governor of California. She lives in Atherton, California with her husband, Griff Harsh, and has two grown sons, Griff and Will. JOAN O’C. HAMILTON is a former Silicon Valley bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine. She now works with executives and political leaders as a book collaborator and lives in Menlo Park, California.
THE POWER OF MANY
Values for Success in Business and in Life
by Meg Whitman with Joan O'C. Hamilton
Meg Whitman’s success at eBay is near legendary, making her one of the most well regarded CEOs of our time. In this exciting new book, THE POWER OF MANY: Values for Success in Business and in Life (Crown, January 26, 2010), she lays out in detail for the first time the values and the leadership philosophy that helped her and her team turn a tiny start-up into a revolutionary economic engine that provides a livelihood for people around the world and fuels tens of billions of dollars in transactions. She not only reveals the decision-making behind many of the company’s most strategic moves but how her close-knit family, her upbringing, and her wide-ranging career at places like Bain, Disney, Hasbro, and FTD informed her choices. Readers will find inspiration and practical advice on how to achieve success and fulfillment in all areas of life.
The book reveals how managing eBay by what might be called old-fashioned, common-sense values unleashed a remarkable twenty-first century phenomenon that Meg (as readers will quickly come to know her) calls the Power of Many. As she writes: “At eBay, values were a force multiplier—indispensable in building an empowering and successful community. I believe those same values have the power to transform not only the way we do business, but our lives, our communities, and the world beyond.” Meg shows us that being guided by such principles as trust, courage, and validation is not naive. Values like these are essential tools for success that go hand in hand with traditional business practices—like holding oneself accountable or growing a company efficiently.
According to Meg, a Power of Many company or organization takes advantage of the communication and networking powers of modern technology to do things that would otherwise be impossible. The goal is to use technology not only to save costs and improve efficiencies, but also to engage the energy, ideas, and goodness of people--their desire to team up with others who share their interests and work together to make their own lives and life in general better. It demands a style of management and leadership that emphasizes communication and openness, and, when difficult decisions loom, it demands that we consider the question: What is the right thing to do?
With a candor rare among CEOs of her stature, Meg offers unexpected and intriguing insights involving situations she's managed and companies she's led where mistakes were made and where the course was not at all clear. As Meg writes about the June 1999 outage at eBay that she believes changed the company's entire future, "Imagine for a moment that you run a shipping company. You have just arrived home from the office and the phone rings. It’s your assistant, calling with the news that your entire fleet has disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle. For all practical purposes . . . eBay vaporized for twenty-two hours, and during many of those hours, we did not know if it was going to reappear in a form that would allow us to stay in business." In the book she illustrates the origins of her values by weaving compelling stories such as these with insight gained from her down-to-earth upbringing—including the indomitable spirit of her eighty-nine-year-old mother, who grew up in Boston society but worked as an airplane mechanic during World War II. It was her mother, Meg says, who gave her “a bias toward action.” Here too are stories of finding her equilibrium during the time when she had young children, and in her marriage to a neurosurgeon with his own highly demanding career. Written in an intimate and accessible style, the book takes the reader through Meg's decision to move on from eBay and into the next phase of her life: politics.
In the THE POWER OF MANY, Meg Whitman shows us that achievement can and should go hand in hand with optimism, trust, and honesty. She offers the insights and motivation we need to propel ourselves to the next level—in business and in life. It is a must read for anyone who endeavors to succeed.
This week Allan welcomes back David Draiman from Disturbed, one of the hottest Metal acts in the world.
Nearly a decade after the release of their groundbreaking debut, The Sickness, Disturbed have become one of the most passionate and well-respected bands in the hard-rock universe, a dependable source not only of pummeling riffs and jackhammer beats, but of personal and political insights into our troubled times. Yet success (in the form of three platinum-plus albums, with both Believe and Ten Thousand Fists topping Billboard's album chart and over nine million albums sold) hasn't dulled this Chicago-based foursome's taste for adventure. If anything, Disturbed's loyal fanbase has pushed the band to newer heights of self-expression. So it makes sense that on the occasion of their fourth album, Indestructible, that frontman David Draiman, guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren decided to take the reins and produce themselves in the studio.
"Doing three records with Johnny K taught us a tremendous amount," Draiman says of the industry veteran who helmed The Sickness, Believe and Ten Thousand Fists. "We're always trying to evolve and try new things and experiment," adds Donegan. "So this time we wanted to do things a little bit differently." Wengren says that Indestructible—which the band tracked over three months in Fall 2007 at Chicago's Groovemaster Recording—afforded the band the "opportunity to prove to ourselves and to everybody else that we could do it." The result of Disturbed's experimentation in the studio is the group's darkest, angriest outing yet. Inspired by two and a half years' worth of challenging experiences, Draiman told the rest of the band that he was in the mood to purge. Fortunately, they were right there with him.
"We wanted to get back to some of the elements that were maybe lacking on the last two records," says Donegan. "David's got a great ability to sing really melodically, but we wanted him to get back to the rhythmic, animalistic, rapid-fire delivery he's known for. He's very hard to touch when he does that, and we wanted to give him music to provoke that."
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