Welcome to Manager Tools. This week we have a special treat for you. Today is the 4th of July,

here in the United States, when we celebrate our independence as Wendy, one of my colleagues who

is British, likes to say, the 4th of July is a reminder of the first or original Brexit.

And we have a Hall of Fame cast for you. And it is one of probably the most famous in our

18-year history now. It is called the Juggling Cohen. If you don't know, a Cohen is a

Buddhist way of teaching things where the monks, the teachers, ask questions that often have

very tricky answers. The classic one is, if a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to

hear it, does it make a sound? Interestingly enough, the answer is no, but you'd have to be a Buddhist

monk to understand that. And we have a question for you in this cast, and then we provide some

listeners' answers, because they wrote in, and we also give the answer. It's about one of the most

important things that separates managers from executives. I hope you enjoy the Juggling Cohen.

Welcome to the Manager Tools Podcast. From Monday, January 15th, 2007, the Juggling Cohen.

Hi everyone, this is Mike, and welcome to Manager Tools. Mark recently blogged their first-ever

management co-on. What would an effective manager do? Now it was clearly a big hit,

and we got like 45 responses within two to three days, which is clearly a record for blog post

comments. Clearly, many of you want to know what the answer is, and that's great. The burning

desire to get better at what we do is at the heart of all good managers, but Mark decided to keep us

all waiting, including me. Well, the weight is over. This is the first for us, a show driven completely

by a blog post, and its response. In fact, we had to juggle the show line up a bit to slide it in

here in a timely fashion. So what's the show all about? Well, don't you want to know what an effective

manager would do when throwing the six ball, when she already is working 80 hours a week and juggling

20 other balls? Well, today we're going to find out. We're going to learn the right way of thinking

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