Corporate Strategy

Taking the time to express gratitude is important. Bruce and Clark walk down memory lane and expunge thanks upon all who deserve it in remembrance of this weird fowl-based holiday. Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/corpo...

None of you asked, but we still listened. Here's a heaping helping episode dedicated to hydration, health, and snacks just for you!  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/corporatestrategy-biz/ or email questions@corpor...

Keeping up with the recent news, we discuss the latest around Twitter and its brand new, slightly questionable owner Elon Musk. Musk recently asked employees to work 84 hours a week, and we think that's pretty crummy. We talk all about how we deal with this outrageous ask this week. Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach...

It is the middle ground between an open laptop and a closed laptop, between meetings and impromptu calls, and it lies between the pit of the first coffee and the summit of  Bruce's lunch. Today we are taking you on a journey, through blocked calendars, time management, and notification silencing.   This is the dimension of productivity. It is an area which we call the Flow Zone. Love us, hate...

This episode was a journey! What started as an aimless discussion around how you start an email turns into a critique of executive leadership and how they dehumanize us. Better just to listen and discover for yourself. This week's call2action: Tell us about meeting briefs Be good to each other Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy...

Time to work through everyone's favorite topic: rejection. While we aren't touching on how to deal with a failed job interview (yet), we dig into the feeling of having an idea, piece of work, or anything you put some effort into rejected by someone who "knows better." Rejection sucks; let Corporate Strategy help make it better!  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to kno...

Special guest Nathan will help us navigate the path of starting and maintaining extra-professional relationships. We discuss how to befriend your co-worker, why you should, and what advantages it can bring you. Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://...

It's all the rage, but what is it exactly? We break down and share our thoughts on "just doing what is expected of you" and give some tips to quit quietly and live your best life. Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com...

We finally did it! We managed to schedule not one but two guests around Clark's buck-wild calendar. Today we managed to sit down and talk through some stories of what has worked for us regarding investing and personal finance. Thanks to Alex and Tony for joining us and sharing their experience with investing, stocks, real estate, 401k, and so much more. Disclaimer: Nothing this episode states...

It's been a minute, and we are sorry! We are bringing you 40 minutes of lived leadership experience and advice to make up for it. While leading is never easy, we may have cracked the code for learning how to lead and build yourself into the agent of change we want you to be.  Thanks as always to our topic submitters, keep em coming! Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know.  Visit o...

"Jack of all trades" will be said a lot during this episode. We break down our own experiences as both jack of all trades and experts and discuss who should specialize or generalize and why.   Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know.  Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.lin...

I can't believe it has been a year of podcasts! In this episode, Bruce and Clark open up about what has been good, bad, and otherwise in producing this podcast for you all.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know.  Visit our website: https://www.corporatestrategy.biz/ Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/corpor...

This week we are responding to another listener-submitted topic. Thank you, and keep the suggestions coming! Dealing with toxic people is never easy. Sometimes they can be aggressive and uncorrectable, which drags the entire workplace down. This episode discusses the best approach to handling those who hate being handled. As a bonus, we also touch on those snooty privileged types that like to flau...

Wow, this might be our longest episode yet!  This one is jam packed with listener submitted topics. We dive deep into addressing the challenges of being stuck in a dead-end individual contributor role when management positions are available and deserved. Bruce and Clark share their experiences of breaking out of their decade-long work engagements and offer tips to our dear listeners on what they s...

Fulfilling a listener request, we discussed professionalism in the workplace this week. Listen to the end to hear a special surprise.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebangers or email  questions@corporatestrategy.biz Support the show Click/Tap HERE for eve...

Today we talk about dealing with life events that interrupt the precious corporate work we all do that is very important to everyone /s.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebangers or email  questions@corporatestrategy.biz Support the show Click/Tap HERE for...

Content Warning: This episode does briefly mention incidents of suicide at timestamp 24:45-26:00 Today, we get a little heavy and talk about the corporate layoff. We get into the good, bad, and ugly along with providing some tips on how to handle and even avoid the situation outright.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.co...

Clark finally convinced me to talk about what I actually do, and it turns out there's a heck of a lot to say. Today's ep covers corporate marketing from top to bottom, digging into campaigns, creative, demand gen, and how to make t-shirts with your name on them.  #bigCACCEnergy Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter....

Things are about to get scary. Clark tells a horrifying tale that makes Bruce get angry, and you won't like him when he's angry... Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebangers or email  questions@corporatestrategy.biz Support the show Click/Tap HERE f...

We have another special guest joining us on the podcast today: Jack. He brings tales from the land of customer support and helps lay the path for others starting to use the opportunity to build a better future for themselves.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We want to know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/br...

Today we recant two recent events in our lives regarding resignation. Understand the sad true tales of leaving and the all the reasons why.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We wanna know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebangers or email  questions@corporatestrategy.biz Support the show Click/Tap HERE for...

Sometimes you need to step away from the desk and drink some cool clear water. Listen to our nightmares, job satisfaction, and fitness routines on this chilled down episode of Corporate Strategy.  Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We wanna know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebangers or email  questions@c...

Following our product management episode we now dig into the other side of the product coin: the engineer. We recall our own history and remember the good/bad old days as developers. We continue the theme of talking C.A.C.C Culture, Autonomy, Compensation and Challenge and decide whether or not anyone should ever be an engineer. Love us, hate us, wanna berate us? We wanna know. Reach out here: Rea...

Today we start a new series dissecting the team composition of various roles inside of your local corporate entity.  Didn't mean for it to become a series but we spend 20 minutes talking about product managers so you know this is gonna go long. Bruce is feeling especially spicy as his parents were killed by a product manager when he was very young. Fortunately Clark is there to defend the goo...

Inspired by the move Alaska Airlines just made: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/alaska-airlines-flight-attendants-get-double-pay-to-pick-up-shifts.html What are you willing to give up for a little more ched?  Agree? Disagree? we wanna know. Reach out here: Reach out to us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CorporateStrats on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebangers or email  questions@corpora...