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195: Glenn Elliott: Get on with it and stay resilient
Glenn Elliott Show Notes Page Glenn Elliott was trying to grow his company by building a sales team. He had six false starts, received tons of advice and counsel, hired a guru that nearly bankrupted [...]
194: Phyllis Weiss Haserot: The degree of frustration I felt is enormous
Phyllis Weiss Haserot Show Notes Page Phyllis Weiss Haserot shares the leadership skills she has had to lean on as her husband’s Parkinson’s disease rapidly progressed while she is passionately pushing forward her work in [...]
193: Aaron Edelheit: I’m going to turn off
Aaron Edelheit Show Notes Page Aaron Edelheit was grossly over-worked, over-whelmed and way too connected. He found himself becoming less and less productive despite investing more and more time. Not only was work suffering so [...]
192: Simone Vincenzi: I basically made myself homeless
Simone Vincenzi Show Notes Page Simone Vincenzi decided to quit his job and go to school to learn how to run his own business. Tragically, his grandfather pasted away and Simone decided to travel back [...]
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 [...]
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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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