MQ4B Podcast

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415: The world of work improves when we include and support women’s voices and leadership with guest expert Beate Chelette

Beate Chelette, author of Happy Woman Happy World Bill Ringle and Beatte Chelette discuss insider perspectives on how to create a work culture that is genuinely collaborative and inclusive for female and male small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business … Read more

412: Hybrid selling requires us to have a different toolkit for success

Andy Springer, author of Virtual Selling: How to Build Relationships, Differentiate, and Win Sales Remotely Bill Ringle and Andy Springer discuss the research-based skills and routines used by sales top performers for small and mid-sized business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small … Read more

409: Building your content marketing muscles with guest expert Pamela Wilson

Pamela Wilson, author of Master Content Marketing Bill Ringle and Pamela Wilson discuss how content marketing differs from social media marketing and what steps to take to attract leads that become profitable customers for small business marketers. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small … Read more

408: The best leaders value profits and people with guest expert Andrew Bryant

Andrew Bryant, author of The New Leadership Playbook: Being human whilst successfully delivering accelerated results Bill Ringle and Andrew Bryant discuss details of decisiveness, inclusiveness, and accountability as leadership plays that leaders of small and mid-size companies can use now. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to … Read more

404: Find your greater potential with guest expert Jim Wetrich

Jim Wetrich, author of Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong Bill Ringle and Jim Wetrich discuss the traps and solutions to the causes of working in isolation, ignorance, and unawareness to gain greater clarity and effectiveness for small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to … Read more

401: Your Message Matters with guest expert Johnathan Milligan

Jonathan Milligan, author of Your Message Matters: How to Rise Above the Noise and Get Paid for What You Know Bill Ringle and Johnathan Milligan discuss what it means to share a message, be a messenger, and find your voice so that you can be paid for your knowledge and expertise for entrepreneurs, experts, and … Read more

394: Performance conversations that can transform your business with expert Christopher D. Lee

Christopher Lee, author of Performance Conversations: How to Use Questions to Coach Employees, Improve Productivity, and Boost Confidence (Without Appraisals) Bill Ringle and Chris Lee discuss how your managers can adopt a coaching methodology to improve your business conversations and performance for small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert … Read more

391: The constellation model of leadership with guest expert Matthew Barzun

Matthew Barzun, author of The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go Bill Ringle and Matthew Barzun discuss leadership insights for small business leaders from Matthew’s perspective as a United States ambassador to Sweden and the United Kingdom. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice … Read more

386:The ability to change your perspective allows your leadership to shine with guest expert Amer Kaissi

Amer Kaissi, author of Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership Bill Ringle and Amer Kaissi discuss the benefits and disasters resulting from business leaders who lacked (sufficient) humility, the essential component to combine with ambition for small business leaders and founders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring … Read more

385: Start by cultivating a change culture with guest expert Barry Moltz

Barry Moltz, author of Change Masters: How to Actually Make The Changes You Already Know You Need to Make Bill Ringle and Barry Moltz discuss how our brain chemistry helps us survive but not thrive as business leaders and how to become a change master. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert … Read more

MQ4B Booster 23.5 Make a Decision and Keep the Change

Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Today on Track 1, I’d like to share with you how to win the battle between short-term satisfaction and long-term goals, excerpted from my friend Barry Moltz’s terrific book, Change Masters. This is Track 2, where I want you to offer … Read more

MQ4B Booster 23.4 What Leaders Do to Become More Influential

Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Today on Track 1, I’d like to share with you a mini case study of how Starbucks is persuasive by design, from my friend Brian Ahern’s book, Influence People.  This is Track 2, where I want you to offer you a … Read more

161: Sell with Authority – Interview with guest expert Mike Saunders

Positioning Authority Coach at Marketing Huddle Authority Positioning Coach Mike Saunders talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about marketing hurdles, learning from failure, and the phenomenon of creating “Done for You” assets. >>>Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business. My Quest for … Read more

160: Thinking Right Side Up – Featured Interview with guest expert David Fields

David Fields, Founder of Ascendant Consulting >>>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 interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission … Read more

158: Overcoming Diversity Fatigue – Featured Interview with David Livermore

David Livermore talks with Bill Ringle about how awareness of values diversity drives business value.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

The importance of taking inventory of your company culture.
How to recognize and overcome “diversity fatigue.”
The role of diversity metrics in business.
The key ingredient of shared objectives.
What Jeff Bezos missed with his “empty chair” technique

157: Striking Up Conversations with Strangers – Featured Interview with Melinda Blau

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The advantages of striking up converstations with strangers in business.
  • How having consequential strangers in your life adds both variety to your perspective and dollars to your bottom line.
  • What to do to add consequential strangers in your life when you relocate or visit a new city.
  • How to overcome your shyness and other factors that have held you back from reaching out.

Melinda Blau talks with Bill Ringle about how interactions and relationships with consequential strangers matter to business owners even in the age of social media.

156: How to Be Listener Directed – Featured Interview with guest expert Jay Sullivan

Jay Sullivan, Author and Managing Partner of Exec|Comm Jay Sullivan talks with Bill Ringle about listening, connection, what it means to be an effective communicator. >>> 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 … Read more

155: Get Yourself Published – Featured Interview with Adam Witty

Founder and CEO, Advantage Media Group >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Adam Witty talks with Bill Ringle about how to build your business through book publishing. Listen to this interview to learn: The advantages you gain by being a published author. What … Read more

153: Make the Most of Your Strengths – Featured Interview with Stefan Swanepoel

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Marketing secrets from a prolific, bestselling author.
  • How he designed his book to have wide appeal through social media and traditional channels.
  • Lessons about becoming comfortable with who you are and making the most of your strengths in business and in life.

Stefan Swanepoel talks with Bill Ringle about using our innate strengths to overcome challenges in business and in life.