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Season 1 Episode 123
Should professionals like you and I be reading fiction and if so, why?
Dr. Christine Seifert is the author of a 2020 HBR article, The Case for Reading…
3 years, 7 months ago
Is Bill Gross The Bond King?
Season 1 Episode 122
Who is Bill Gross?
Who is the guy who learned to take risks in college while scalping basketball tickets at Duke? Or who was the risk-taker who counte…
3 years, 7 months ago
Should Your Business Have a Hall of Fame?
Season 1 Episode 121
One of my favorite CFOs is Bob Lung. For the past 33 years, he's been chauffeuring players and dignitaries at the NFL's annual Hall of Fame weekend a…
3 years, 7 months ago
WorldCom's Financial Statement Fraud
Season 1 Episode 120
With the passing of the 20th anniversary of WorldCom filing bankruptcy in the aftermath of the whistle being blown on its reporting of fraudulent fin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Negotiation Simplified with Jim Reiman
Season 1 Episode 119
What is the best book on negotiation you've ever read?
Many business readers who have read Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss would probably pic…
3 years, 7 months ago
More Than a Trillion Dollar Coach
Season 1 Episode 118
The legendary Bill Campbell is called the trillion dollar coach by his biographers. Campbell coached and mentored larger-than-life business leaders L…
3 years, 7 months ago
What Happened to the Vanderbilt Dynasty?
Season 1 Episode 117
Can you name any recent descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt who didn't build one but two massive fortunes during the Gilded Age? After the third and …
3 years, 8 months ago
Would You Work at This Warehouse?
Season 1 Episode 116
Rob Hart's book, The Warehouse, is a speculative dystopian thriller.
The central character is an online retailer called Cloud - think Amazon in the di…
3 years, 8 months ago
Is Customer Empathy a Difference Maker?
Season 1 Episode 115
We learn from Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view … until you …
3 years, 8 months ago
Fixing a Broken Business
Season 1 Episode 114
Jeff Sands is the author of Corporate Turnaround Artistry. Before fixing and mending other companies' broken income statements and balance sheets, he…
3 years, 8 months ago