Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHospitality is Color, Service is Black and White
Season 1 Episode 133
On Will Guidara's 12th birthday, he had the experience of a lifetime while dining with his family at Four Seasons. Less than thirty years later, Will…
3 years, 5 months ago
What is Financial Transparency?
Season 1 Episode 132
You probably know a little or a lot about a business practice called open book management. This podcast prefers the term, financial transparency.
Duri…
3 years, 5 months ago
Crazy Eddie, The Rise and Fall of a Retail Fraudster
Season 1 Episode 131
The Crazy Eddie stores of the 1980s are probably most remembered by the Jerry Carrell commercials that have been parodied in the movies, TV shows, an…
3 years, 5 months ago
Interest and the Price of Time
Season 1 Episode 130
As of the release date of this episode, the prime interest rate in the U.S. had surpassed six percent, nearly double the rate a few months earlier.
Ar…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Soul of Startups
Season 1 Episode 129
Sophie Theen is the author of The Soul of Startups. Sophie states that there is a misconception that a company's people make its culture. Instead, th…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Flaw of Averages
Season 1 Episode 128
Dr. Sam Savage is the gifted teacher all of us would have loved having as our professor in stats classes.
Sam is the author of The Flaw of Averages an…
3 years, 6 months ago
Surrounded by Idiots
Season 1 Episode 127
Thomas Erikson is the author of Surrounded by Idiots, a book that simplifies four basic personality types using a coloring system and a two-by-two ma…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Best Book for Professional Services Firms
Season 1 Episode 126
Can you think of a top business book exclusively for professional services firms? If so, your list is probably short and presumably headed by any tit…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry
Season 1 Episode 125
If we think the reasons for the fall of BlackBerry are an open and shut case, we need to think again. Sean Silcoff is the co-author of Losing the Sig…
3 years, 6 months ago
Origins of the Airline Industry
Season 1 Episode 124
When I read a biography, I want the words to jump out by telling me something I never knew about the person that's both memorable and interesting. I …
3 years, 7 months ago