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191: Pete Williams: What was a massive win became our shackles
Pete Williams Show Notes Page Pete Williams built a company selling phone systems but gradually learned he was not getting any repeat business. That’s when Pete and his team began to discover and implement the [...]
190: Ralph Welborn: What role do we play in business ecosystems
Ralph Welborn Show Notes Page Ralph Welborn was working on a wicked problem with the Department of Defense, CEO’s, and Chief Security Officers of many different organizations. He had to get them all to be [...]
189: Brad Deutser: I’ve never looked back
Brad Deutser Show Notes Page Brad Deuster had a business partner for many years and he finally realized that the partnership didn’t work for him. He kept giving and giving and finally let go of [...]
188: Howard Partridge: I was a terrible leader
Howard Partridge Show Notes Page Howard Partridge had the vision for a turnkey business. What he did not realize was that his strong out-going task-oriented, demanding, direct, defiant personality was really turning everybody off. That’s [...]
187: Whitney Johnson: It’s not that I turned it around
Whitney Johnson Show Notes Page Whitney Johnson was a star analyst working on Wall Street and she had a fantastic year, except when she got the feedback from all her peers. It was really bad. [...]
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 [...]
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