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186: Danita Bye: This is not about complaining – it’s about doing
Danita Bye Show Notes Page Danita Bye and her husband decided to buy a snowmobile sleigh manufacturing company. Then El Niño moved in and stayed for three years. Danita was angry at everyone. Then a [...]
185: Connie Malamed: You have to want to give to them
Connie Malamed Show Notes Page Connie Malamed wrote a book about visual language for instructional design to achieve quick and effective communication - but she had to speak about it. Considering herself more of a [...]
184: Jack Bergstrand: It was an over-my-dead-body conversation
Jack Bergstrand Show Notes Page Jack Bergstrand was a young executive at Coca-Cola working on changing the distribution network to gain efficiency and lower costs. But his plan negatively impacted manufacturing, which he was not [...]
183: Art Coombs: You label you
Art Coombs Show Notes Page Art Combs overcame being labeled as lazy and stupid to becoming a CEO. Along the way he started several businesses, wrote a few books and traveled the globe as a [...]
182: Jonathan Low: If it fails, it’s not me failing
Jonathan Low Show Notes Page Jonathan Low worked 80 hours a week for two and a half years. Then his body collapsed and he began to doubt himself. It took him an entire year to recover [...]
181: Chris Dyer: In mid-air you change directions a few times
Chris Dyer Show Notes Page Chris Dyer quit his job and started a business in 2001, just two months after the biggest terrorist attack in American history. He took inspiration from tragedy. He rented every [...]
180: Greg Young: I needed to reframe what I considered to be successful
Greg Young Show Notes Page Greg Young needed to make changes quickly and radically to prevent losing market share. But he was ending each day with beating himself up because he was not completing his [...]
179: Jeff Piersall: It cost me a tremendous journey
Jeff Piersall Show Notes Page Jeff Piersall was in a 14-year business relationship with who he thought was a good friend. But it ended in a betrayal. Despite another partner betrayal later in his career, [...]
178: Olga Mizrahi: I publicly thanked them for the negative review
Olga Mizrahi Show Notes Page Olga Mizrahi knows that reviews are part of the gig economy and the future of work. So, after reading a negative review about her book she had three choices that [...]
177: Eric Kish: They gave me 90 days to crash and burn
Eric Kish Show Notes Page Eric Kish was placed in an oil refinery to turn it around. Overloaded with debt and crippled by equipment that had failed inspection, Eric thought he had no option but [...]
176: Dave Mattson: I’m forever grateful for my road to excellence
Dave Mattson Show Notes Page Dave Mattson had the opportunity to buy into an established business but was unable to secure the funding he needed. After being rejected by several bankers and taking a hit [...]
175: Cash Keahey: I had to win their respect as a leader
Cash Keahey Show Notes Page Cash Keahey was facilitating strategic planning for corporate executives when he realized he wanted to try leading people. He was placed in an operations role and was seen as a [...]
The Hump Day Hoedown is the fun and fast paced part of our 20-minute (ish) show where we ask our guests several questions. Their job is to give robust but rapid responses to the questions. Sometimes I get a good surprise and get off track; but I make every effort to quickly jump back on that camel and race on to the finish.
As always I want your feedback and thoughts on questions we should add to the hoedown. One I will never ask is, “Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike…guess what day it is?” So don’t send it.
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