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Selling – Who Wins – Who Loses – & Why

Joe Kaplan for 30 years has sold everything from breakfast cereal to exotic financial instruments with astounding success. What’s more, Joe knows why he’s a master salesperson and what profitable selling really demands. And now, so will you. Host Bart…

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Elftalk – Santa’s Workshop Motivators Revealed

How can a remote enterprise create inventory all year, then distribute it entirely within one winter’s evening? As the crunch time draws near, how does the jolly old saint and CEO urge his elves on to peak performance, but still…

Company Culture – Yours for the Crafting

You can feel it when it’s really good – and you can smell it when it’s not. A company’s culture comprises the way it does business, the way staff and management interact, and more importantly the spirit and values behind…

U.S. Worker Safety: Death by Compliance

Thirteen American working people are dying every single day on the job. And internationally renowned occupational safety expert Phil La Duke is mad as hell about it. Host Bart Jackson unleashes the fireball La Duke who slams the blame squarely…

The Business of Restoring After Disaster

Who can clean up a church after the Twin Towers have crashed all around it? Who gives people back their homes when Hurricane Sandy smashes all they own? Who gets folks back to work after a 51st story fire in…

Why Most Incentive Programs Fail Miserably

If you are very wise, or very greedy, or both, you want to give your team the very best incentives that encourage each member’s peak performance. Trouble is, that’s a surprisingly tough order. Most traditional reward systems motivate less than…

Leadership on the Fly – Effective Messaging

Leadership is an active verb. It is performed in swift succession throughout your daily encounters with all the folks you meet – with those you need to influence. Host Bart Jackson brings on board Chris Westfall, wise counselor to the…

How Ultra Tech Keeps on Top of the World

Air Liquide CEO Paul Burlingame reveals the secrets of cross-cultural business agility and  how to survive the current trade wars. If your job is to make and sell seemingly magic thin films, four-atoms thick, that keeps computer chips and solar…

A Gathering of Eagles– from MBA to Peer Grouping

There is nothing cookie-cutter about being an executive – no template, no recipe gives you the prowess you need to inspire people, design profitable tasks, and keep your firm growing. Your most effective way to learn the ropes comes from…

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The Odd Coupling – Men and Women in Business

Since Man and Woman first set up shelter in a cave, they have been force-fit into separate working roles.  Today, carrying millennia of baggage and marvelously distinct abilities, ladies and gentlemen blend their energies into the realm of business.  Host…