Talk Real Shift

Joe LaRussa spent his career in automotive. Promotions, a patent, industry recognition. He was winning at work but walking into chaos every night. He talks about how the industry downturn swept up his position. He was a new dad with toddler at home and no plan. On the drive home that day, with nothing left to schedule and no meetings to run, it hit him: Every system he used at work was usable. He...

Terry Rhadigan spent 36 years at General Motors. He started answering phones on an 800 number in Troy, Michigan, fielding angry customers in an era when Detroit's quality reputation was taking hits. Communications was the goal, but it took nine years of dealer visits, district service calls, and floor-level learning before he got there. On the other side of a GM crisis, he became VP of Global Comm...

Bill Currence is a West Point graduate, former Army officer, and the guy companies call when everything is on fire. They got tired of watching big consulting firms walk in, bill millions, and leave nothing behind but a PowerPoint deck and a bigger problem. So they built CCO Brands instead. But getting there cost him. Bill watched himself lose his values in a plant he was trying to save, pushed by...

Amy Wang has spent 20+ years building things from nothing. She helped open a hospital as the ninth employee and scaled it to 2,500. She wore a hard hat over a business suit, slept in her car, and worked 120 hours a week to make sure her team delivered on time and on budget. She learned, the hard way, that success in silence isn't success at all, and that bringing people along on the journey matter...