Podcast Episodes
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Season 1 Episode 193
I had never considered the business aspects of pirating until I read Katherine Howe's newest book, A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst th…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Phoenix Project
Season 1 Episode 192
I'd recommend The Phoenix Project if I could only recommend one book to a CEO, CFO, or COO about the essentials or the heart of IT in a heartbeat.
The…
2 years, 4 months ago
Quick Value
Season 1 Episode 191
I cannot begin to count the number of times I've heard the following question or something similar, "Mark, I've heard my industry EBITDA multiple is …
2 years, 4 months ago
Throughput Accounting and Economics
Season 1 Episode 190
As much as I enjoy reading the Goldratt books and his theory of constraints (TOC), I never considered his early book, The Race, a solid and readable …
2 years, 5 months ago
The Psychology of Pricing
Season 1 Episode 189
If you have read any books on pricing, the title that stands above the rest is Hermann Simon's Confessions of The Pricing Man.
However, suppose you ar…
2 years, 5 months ago
100 Baggers
Season 1 Episode 188
One of my favorite books in the value investing niche is 100 Baggers by Chris Mayer, a title that is also worth reading for CEOs, CFOs, and all other…
2 years, 5 months ago
The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Season 1 Episode 187
When I finished Nick Gray's The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, I immediately thought that this was the perfect follow-up book to start applying all of the te…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Rise and Fall of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty
Season 1 Episode 186
As a child growing up in rural Missouri who listened to countless baseball games on the radio of my favorite baseball team, I heard the names Budweis…
2 years, 5 months ago
True Profit
Season 1 Episode 185
Confessions of a Pricing Man is easily the best book ever written on this topic.
The author is Hermann Simon, the Chairman of Simon-Kucher. He's also …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Stories Beyond FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Season 1 Episode 188
I predict that Number Go Up will be considered the most fascinating and entertaining book in narrative non-fiction for 2023.
Our guest is Zeke Faux, a…
2 years, 6 months ago