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135: Try and Buy – Featured Interview with Linda J. Popky

Program Advisor and Author of Marketing Above the Noise >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Linda Popky talks with Bill Ringle about marketing above the noise as a way of achieving a strategic advantage for leaders of growth-oriented companies.   Listen to this interview to … Read more

134: Organizations Don’t Change, People Do – Featured Interview with Peter Sheahan

Peter Sheahan, CEO of Karrikins Group >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Peter Sheahan talks with Bill Ringle about what it takes for an organization to MATTER in an age where commoditization and infoglut threaten public, private, and not-for-profit organizations, so you can move … Read more

133: Make Learning Sweet – Featured Interview with guest expert Erika Andersen

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Why openness to new ideas is so important for business leaders.
  • How executives have started to put resources behind developing their own leaders and managers to succeed at a higher level.
  • What key inflection points made the biggest difference in growing Proteus in the last 10 years.

    • Six characteristics and skill sets of effective leaders.

Erika Andersen talks with Bill Ringle about principles, practices, and observations for cultivating leaders.

132: What Does Success Teach Us? Nothing – Featured Interview with Steven Snyder

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How consulting offers a post-graduate education in business.
  • Details about the what leaders find in common while advancing their business goals: change, tension points, and feeling off-balance at times.
  • The importance and value of embracing one’s own struggle story as a way to greater authenticity, clarity, and power.
  • When success can make a lousy teacher.
  • Different types of blind spots that leaders typically face.
  • How working to solve the wrong problem can be corrected.

 

 

Steven Snyder talks with Bill Ringle about leadership and the art of the struggle.

 

131: Hello, My Name is Scott – Featured Interview with Scott Ginsberg

Scott Ginsberg, author of The Power of Approachability Scott Ginsberg talks with Bill Ringle about approachability, embracing failure, and the advantages of “Try-Listen-Leverage” as a business tactic. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business … Read more

129: Understanding the Q-Loop – Featured Interview with Brian Klapper

Founding Partner of The Klapper Institute >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Internationally recognized expert in operational and cultural transformation, Brian Klapper talks to Bill Ringle about how to implement effective organizational change. Listen to this interview to learn: What professional incident created … Read more

128: What’s Your Big Idea? – Featured Interview with guest expert Mark Levy

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How one consultant’s business went from earning from about $1800 to over $ 100,000 each month.

  • Where Mark learned to differentiate products

  • The single most important thing a business can do to have others seek them out for business.

  • What one consultant did to become #2 best-selling author on 800-CEO-Read.

  • How Jerry Garcia compares the Grateful Dead to licorice to help him think about marketing.

  • The “mentoring perspective” and how it helps stripe away generalizations and hyperbole.

  • What free writing can do for your business.

  • The importance of immersing yourself in reading.

Mark Levy talks with Bill Ringle about the dramatic difference effective positioning makes for a consultant, professional firm, or thought leader.

126: Become a Presentologist – Featured Interview with guest expert Mark Sanborn

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What clients really want to hear from consultants and what audiences want to hear from speakers.
  • Ways in which change itself has changed.
  • A key question that effective leaders ask daily to build a shared sense of vision and progress.
  • How leaders at any level can share what matters most to help an organization move more rapidly towards business success.

Mark Sanborn talks with Bill Ringle about effective ways to navigate uncertainty as you grow personally and professionally.

125: Never Let Them See You Sweat – Featured Interview with Gerald Chertavian

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What he is doing to redefine who is talented. 
  • Why you should never “let them see you sweat.” 
  • How sensitivity and respect lead to opportunity.
  • What skills companies are in demand of and how we can give those skills to America’s young adults.
  • That turning your avocation into your vocation is possible.

Gerald Chertavian talks with Bill Ringle about his journey to close the “opportunity divide” that exists in our nation. 

124: Designing Innovative Ecosystems – Featured Interview with Victor Hwang

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Why some places thrive and others struggle with comparable levels of talent pool and opportunity.
  • What is a trust network and why it matters.
  • The surprising key to an innovative ecosystem
  • A simple belief to cultivate that makes an ecosystem systainable

Victor Hwang talks with Bill Ringle about creating and growing sustainable ecosystems for startups.

123: Staying on the Bleeding Edge – Featured Interview with guest expert Mitch Joel

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How when you help brands stay on the leading edge, you often have to stay on the bleeding edge
  • Changes that are occuring between the pure play ad agencies vs. the digital agencies
  • Impact of reaching customers when they have many choices of screens, from desktop to iPad/tablet to mobile
  • Fundamental tenets of customer engagement that still guide online marketing strategies
  • What Walmart did differently to engage customers around a Mother’s Day campaign led by Twist Image

Mitch Joel talks with Bill Ringle about how brands use technology to form and develop direct relationships with customers.

121: Clear Your Focus – Featured Interview with Russell Bishop

Russell Bishop talks with Bill Ringle about alignment and empowerment within organizations as key growth drivers.

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What it means to have a solo focus rather than an organizational focus
  • Why strategy and objectvies DON’T matter
  • A perspective on complaining that can transform the conversation into one of contribution
  • How good questions provoke clear thinking
  • Two simple questions to ask yourself to stay on track and productive

120: How Good Managers Become Great Leaders – Featured Interview with guest expert Mike Figliuolo

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The distinction between managing and leading, advocated by Admiral Grace Mary Hooper
  • Stages to building a profitable, scalable training company
  • What leaders did to deepen trust and improve communications at a Fortune 100 company
  • Why boundaries are so elusive for leaders and how to make them work better
  • The mindset needed to grow your company in a short period of time

Mike Figliuolo talks with Bill Ringle about the importance for leaders of understanding people as individuals in an organization. 

118: What Do You Really Want? – Featured Interview with guest expert Michael Bungay Stanier

Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit, talks with Bill Ringle about how to strengthen your management effectiveness by giving less advice.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

What it means when managers create an environment to stay focused, engaged, and learning as the standard
How to avoid being an advice-giving maniac
Tactics to get beyond the first answer to a deeper question (which is not the only answer and rarely the best answer)
Why your organization will become more productive when there is less of a rush to action
What makes up 50% of our waking behavior and rarely gets the attention it deserves

117: Ubertrending – Featured Interview with Michael Tchong

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116: Turning the Coin Over – Featured Interview with guest expert Doug Conant

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How getting fired can lead to new and better opportunities
  • What it means to “turn the coin over” when presented with a problem
  • The two top qualities of mind that set exceptional leaders apart from well-intentioned leaders
  • How you can use the criteria to win in the marketplace in your own business
  • What resulted from combining the social agenda with the value agenda at Cambell’s Soup for employees and other stakeholders

Doug Conant talks with Bill Ringle about proven leadership principles that apply across the board, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.

115: Share Your Code to Become a Better Leader – Featured Interview with Mette Norgaard

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What leaders who care about the human side of business can be observed doing regularly
  • How the Finnish Broadcasting situation was turned around one lunch conversation at a time
  • What distinguishes a conversation from a Touchpoint opportunity
  • Why sharing your “code” with your team can make you a better leader
  • How to combine your words and energy in an interaction to produce extraordinary impact
  • What you can do to sidestep the myth of “no time to slow down” 

Mette Norgaard talks with Bill Ringle about Touchpoints as a transformative tool in business.

114: Building Great Relationships – Featured Interview with Elaine Pofeldt

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Keys to building great relationships with clients
  • How the criteria you use for evaluating opportunities changes as you change your business vision 
  • The central role of courage for succeeding as an entrepeneur 
  • How trusting your observations and taking action leads to success
  • Important networking advice for corporate managers and leaders

Elaine Pofeldt talks with Bill Ringle about succeeding as an independent journalist focused on careers and entrepreneurship.

113: The Perpetual Wealth System with John Jamieson

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • An insider’s view of how to make money like your bank does
  • How you can make monthly payments to yourself to earn tax-free income
  • Why it is better to buy a car than to fund your 401 K when you follow the right system
  • How putting together an action plan makes you more productive
  • The 4 wealth drains to plug up in your personal finances

John Jamison talks with Bill Ringle about creating a perpetual wealth system to benefit entrepreneurs, their children, grandchildren, and generations beyond.

112: Silent Language of Leaders – Interview with Carol Goman

President of Kinsey Consulting Services

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth.

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The two channels of non-verbal communication that we want leaders to use
  • Gender differences and how they impact non-verbal leadership signals
  • Cultural views of time and tips on how to be respectful when traveling abroad
  • How emotions are common across cultures, but what can be shared, displayed, or shown differs
  • What makes our brains default to negative interpretations of any news under certain circumstances

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110: Digital Convergence Marketing – Interview with Fred Catona

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The most memorable lesson he learned from Priceline founder, Jay Walker
  • Why having a message foundation is the critical step to get right for a marketer
  • How to leverage the speed and feedback advantages of direct response radio advertising
  • What role the trust agent plays in marketing for businesses that range from medical practices to travel, especially if you have a skeptial audience
  • What specific criteria you can use to decide if radio advertising can help you grow your business

Fred Catona talks with Bill Ringle about achieving large-scale success in business based on direct marketing principles and paying attention to what works. 

109: Selling Against the Goal – Featured Interview with guest expert Kendra Lee

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to set criteria for overcoming your self-doubt
  • Who to ask for business advice (and who can’t give you helpful advice, even if more convenient)
  • Looking beyond cold calling for lead generation
  • How a $5 MM lab simulation company got out of their own way and doubled revenue
  • The big breakthrough for a $100 MM security company 
  • Why campaign success cannot be measured after a single event or e-mail, and how to really make it work

Kendra Lee talks with Bill Ringle about what happens to your business growth once you really start to believe in your talents and abilities.

108: Guerilla Selling – Featured Interview with Orvel Ray Wilson

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How insisting on a meeting with a decision maker led to a great friendship and business partnership with Jay Levinson
  • What Red Bull did to break into the London bar scene
  • Economic trends that every business owner can use for growth
  • The business growth leverage opportunity in upgrading the skills of your team

Orvel Ray Wilson talks with Bill Ringle about Guerrilla Marketing and conquering overseas territories.

107: The Power of Unpopular – Interview with Erika Napoletano

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The business mindset of caring about the success of your clients first
  • The perspective of major brands that don’t mind being unpopular with given market segments
  • The power of having your audience spread your message for greater impact and reach

Erika Napoletano talks with Bill Ringle about the uncommon advantages of being unpopular.

106: The Leaders Climb – Interview with Paul Heagen

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How an early start in news radio led to a career in executive coaching
  • What to do when you find yourself going too fast and fighting too many decisions
  • The similarities of a movie script to a life script
  • How having a professional code of behavior makes it easy to be consistent and credible
  • How publishing a book creates a public standard and personal challenge for congruence

Paul Heagan talks with Bill Ringle about how to succeed by creating an environment where you can do your best thinking and leading.

105: The Hidden Agenda – Interview with Kevin Allen

Author and Founder/CEO of re:kap >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Kevin Allen talks with Bill Ringle about using the Hidden Agenda to your advantage. Listen to this interview to learn: What it means to really listen for the underlying emotions in what … Read more

104: Leadership from the Inside Out – Interview with Kevin Cashman

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The value of both outer tools (strategy, communications, teambuilding, finance,…) and inner tools (self-awareness of values, character, talents, vision,…) for great leaders
  • What it takes to transform the volitility, unpredictability, complex, and ambiguous elements to those of vision, understanding, clarity, and agility
  • How it took 9 years of research and 1 year of writing to create The Pause Principle book
  • What steps Kevin took to add a “pause environment” in his home 

Kevin Cashman talks with Bill Ringle about using the Pause Principle to develop yourself, others, and to create a culture of innovation. 

103: 18 Minutes – Interview with Peter Bregman

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The right environment to train business leaders who must have dangerous conversations
  • What makes the “You can have it all” myth so important to burst
  • How to use 5 boxes on your daily planner to accomplish the most important objectives each year

Peter Bregman talks with Bill Ringle about the benefits of finding your focus.

102: Having your excellence speak for you with guest expert Cal Newport

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How “follow your passion” can be counterproductive advice
  • The value and necessity of systematic practice to developing deep skills
  • The two prime characteristics of the most marketable skills
  • Why “mission” creates meaning and opportunities for leverage if sequenced properly
  • That the solution to a mystery is not that complex, unless we oversimplify or overcomplicate it
  • Key steps to selling more than 120,000 copies of his first 3 books

Cal Newport talks with Bill Ringle about the underlying patterns of success in both business and academia.

101: Change Friendly Leadership – Interview with Rodger Dean Duncan

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What newscaster Jim Lehrer taught Rodger about good interviewing
  • Why it is important to set up and maintain an environment to challenge the status quo
  • How an losing agra business turned itself around in 12 months and yielded a $252 million profit 
  • Points of effective communication with a change initiative
  • The importance of being wiling to be influenced

Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan talks with Bill Ringle about change-friendly leadership.

100: A Slice of the Pie – Featured Interview with Nick Sarillo

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The most important aspect of a business is not it’s product or people or process, but another “p” word
  • The importance of making your company values current and present to each employee so that employees can use values in day-to-day decision making
  • The case of the burned bottom pizza, and the broader lessons any business owner can draw from it
  • Why you need to oversee multiple health dimensions of a business for all stakeholders
  • What exceptional factors drives higher profits and lower turnover in a traditionally slim margin and low commitment business that you can model in your business

Nick Sarillo talks with Bill Ringle about creating an empowered work culture for small businesses.

99: How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things – Interview with Neil Smith

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Identifying the structural and human obstacles to change

  • About how Bank of America generated 150,000 ideas for improvement and engaged on the path to improvement through this process

  • Why the fear of the unknown is always a give with change programs, and how to handle it
  • Examples of how to create the right environment for change

Neil Smith talks with Bill Ringle about overcoming the hidden barriers to success for entrepreneurs.

98: The Entrepreneur Equation – Featured Interview with guest expert Carol Roth

Carol Roth, Business Strategist and Bestselling Author Carol Roth talks with Bill Ringle about tough love for entrepreneurs. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful … Read more

97: Predictable Success – Featured Interview with Les McKeown

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The causes of complexity in a growing business
  • The 7-stage lifecycle of a business
  • How to achieve the key balance between systems and processes vs.  creativity and innovation
  • Overcoming the arithmetic extension myth

Les McKeown talks with Bill Ringle about creating predictable success in business.

96: Take the Stairs – Featured Interview with guest expert Rory Vaden

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The paradox principle, in which easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences.
  • Why balance is not something that high performers make a top priority.
  • What to focus on to have great fitness, great relationships, and great finances.
  • The perspective of peace as a form of wealth that is undervalued in society.
  • Daily habits that lead to high focus and productivity.

Rory Vaden talks with Bill Ringle about key principles for succeeding in business and in life described in Take the Stairs.

95: For Better or for Work – Featured Interview with Meg Hirshberg

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How telling the truth makes you feel less alone, and that being a founder is lonely journey at times
  • That business, like marriages, goes through distinct phases
  • Your partner or spouse really wants to know how you are feeling, not just the “good” or “great” response you give to your colleagues and team
  • Being authentic about every aspect of the journey together is critical to the success of both the business and the relationship

Meg Hirshberg talks with Bill Ringle about navigating the challenges of building a business while making a marriage (with children) successful.

94: Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling – Featured Interview with Sam Richter

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How information gives you a competitive advantage with your own confidence.
  • Tips and tricks for accessing specific sites and finding important file types online.
  • Where to go to access exclusive and very expensive database resources at no charge.
  • The importance of recognizing and developing your skills with both the art and science of online research.

Sam Richter talks with Bill Ringle about overcoming the excuses to taking advantage of the rich resources for business relationship development available on the Internet.

93: High Probability Selling – Featured Interview with Jacques Werth

President and Founder of High Probability Selling >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Listen to this interview to learn: Tips from studying the top sales performers for over two decades The distinction between personality traits and behavioral traits What matters more to top … Read more

92: Why the Future of Business is Sharing: Featured Interview with guest expert Lisa Gansky

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How successful companies are built on incredibly talented, committed people
  • An early insight about how the Internet would level the playing field led to forming a startup acquired by AOL
  • Implications of how technology advances have lowered the barriers to entry dramatically
  • Where to find entrepreneurs creating new ideas and companies in major cities
  • Where on the balance sheet many companies can find underutilized and undervalued assets
  • How the meshing.it database became the foundation for both the book as well as an open source resource
  • Clues and tips for finding life-work balance

Lisa Gansky talks with Bill Ringle about the profound implications “meshing” will have on business and society.

91: Leveraging your creativity for competitive advantage with guest expert Josh Linkner

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How creativity is the new currency of success
  • The most exciting news about creativity (hint: it’s something we can all tap within ourselves)
  • What one corporation did to encourage calculated risk-taking among all employees
  • What creating an arch enemy does for boosting creativity at all levels in a company
  • A novel technique for overcoming timid ideas in brainstorming sessions

Josh Linkner talks with Bill Ringle about the need to re-awaken and develop our creative abilities no matter what role or industry you serve to propel growth and innovation.

90: Best Practices Are Stupid – Featured Interview with Stephen Shapiro

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What a difference it makes to realize that all businesses are in the marketing business
  • How cracking the PR code boosts your visibility to prospects
  • A secret of running a profitable business is keeping your overhead low
  • What it means to “think inside the box” and to “define a better box”

89: “Will Your Passion Endure?” – Featured Interview with guest expert Barbara Corcoran

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What skills and personality traits angel investors want entrepreneurs to have
  • How investing in an entrepreneur is like hiring a great sales person
  • What luck does and what the person must do to capitalize on any lucky break
  • The one characteristic that has no substitute in business (or in life)
  • What women entrepreneurs in particular need more of to stand out and be successful

Barbara Corcoran talks with Bill Ringle about her mindset and models for success, as well as behind-the-scenes Shark Tank secrets.

88: Wired for Care – Featured Interview with Dev Patnaik

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How his first job unlocked new ways of thinking about design
  • What most businesses miss in terms of making strategy pay off
  • Why the learner’s mindset matters more than most realize
  • Components of an innovative work culture
  • Why Target refers to its customers as “Guests”

Dev Patnaik talks with Bill Ringle about turning ambiguity into opportuntity for his clients.

87: Cross Cultural Selling – Featured Interview with Michael Soon Lee

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The secret to listening to your customers to meet their real needs, not what you assume they want/need
  • Three practical tips to avoid insulting prospective customers that many United States business people do automatically and unintentionally
  • Some of the key cultural differences used in negotiating
  • A subspecialty of the medical industry that is very entrepreneurial
  • What to do instead of ignoring someone’s culture to build a genuine bond and relationship

Michael Soon Lee talks with Bill Ringle about embracing the multicultural market and building long-lasting, profitable relationships with your customers.