Monday Morning Radio

The June 9th episode of Monday Morning Radio features a full-length interview with Richard Kessler, co-founder of Kessler's Diamonds. This is an excerpt featuring Host Dean Rotbart.

Joanne Lipman has had a storied journalism career, serving as the first woman to become a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal ; founding editor-in-chief of Condé Nast's Portfolio magazine; and most recently as editor-in-chief of USA Today and Chief Content Officer of its parent company, Gannett. Yet during her 35-plus-year career, Joanne never felt that the professional playing field...

Richard Kessler was the diamond engagement ring "King" in the state of Wisconsin for 35 years. His ubiquitous radio commercials, created in conjunction with Roy H. Williams Marketing , were legendary in the state, and not only were his Kessler's Diamonds' stores extraordinarily successful, Richard also became a well-known local personality and philanthropist. One of the first and most popular gues...

In his new book, The Gift of Struggle – out today from Bard Press, Bobby Herrera tells the true-life story of how the hardships he faced as one of 13 children in a Mexican migrant family, provided him the drive and backbone to make possible the impossible. More importantly, Bobby shares specific life-changing lessons about leadership that turns conventional wisdom on its head. It is the formula th...

Terry H. Monroe has been the owner of more than 40 businesses, and helped to facilitate the sale of more than 500 other companies. So when he offers no-nonsense advice on how owners can be certain to get the full value for their businesses or professional practices, he knows what he's talking about. Terry who condensed all the wisdom he's gained over more than 30 years establishing, operating, and...

Question: Can a business 'tiger' change its stripes?  An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.

Brett Vance is a veteran combat and military test pilot who has flown F-16s and commanded the 514th Flight Test Squadron. But he admits that no battle has tested his mettle like working to produce and distribute  Jet Jockeys , his educational and inspirational docu-reality video series that showcases aviators and aviation feats, and targets the large potential audience of aviation enthusiasts. He...

Monday Morning Radio Host Dean Rotbart confesses that he doesn't know who his guest is on this week's podcast.  It's not that Dean doesn't have a fascinating guest, or that the guest's book – " Undistrupted: How Highly-Effective People Deal with Disruptions " – isn't a valuable business read; it's just that Dean literally does not know who wrote the book. The author, who lives in The Netherlands [...

When business owners and leaders align their personal interests with the best interests of their companies and employees, the resulting "Fusion" becomes a powerful force for success. Too often, says Dudley R. Slater, former CEO of Integra Telecom   - with more than 2,500 employees - leaders put their egos and self-interest ahead of what's best for their organizations. Dudley, author of Fusion Lead...

Although Clorox Beach is virtually the same formula as most generic and store brands, it enjoys a consistent 65% market share. Learn its secret in this edition of The Monday Morning Radio Minute  Featuring Lindsay Pedersen, author of ' Forging an Ironclad Brand .'

Clorox Bleach is 6% sodium hypochlorite and 94% water, the exact formulation of most generic store brands. Yet Clorox consistently commands 65% of U.S. bleach sales. Why? Because, says Lindsay Pedersen , who oversaw the hygienic cleaner for The Clorox Company , Clorox Bleach is an "ironclad" brand, one of many she showcases in her new book, " Forging an Ironclad Brand: A Leader's Guide ." Lindsay,...

The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Dean Rotbart, host, and Lindsay Pedersen, author of 'Forging an Ironclad Brand.' "When people buy Clorox, they're not buying bleach at all." What are they buying? Listen and Learn in less than 60 seconds. An excerpt from the April 22, 2019 edition of Monday Morning Radio.

Question: You didn't go to business school and yet you launched a successful business right out of college. How? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.

Entrepreneurial magic often results when education meets opportunity. In the case of Maxwell Cohen , the education was in environmental and water resource economics, and the opportunity was to save millions of gallons of water annually by finding a way for hospitals, nursing homes, and even parents of newborns to avoid having to wash so many bed sheets. His company, Peel Away Labs , developed the...

Question: What does it take to be a successful one-person business? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.

Christina DeBusk spent 15 years working in law enforcement before, in 2012, she caught the writing bug. Without formal journalism training, she took anything and everything that she could get, grinding out content 16 hours a day. Well, it paid off. Today Christina is an Olympic-caliber writer, having completed six books – including How to Earn a Comfortable Living as a Freelance Writer and I've Al...

Question: Why is it so hard to recognize our purpose in life? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart  

If you want to learn how to do it right, a great place to begin is by studying what not to do. Skip Prichard , a successful CEO and former head of publishing giant, Ingram Content Group , is a leading scholar of missteps and miscalculations. For his Wall Street Journal bestseller – The Book of Mistak es – he's condensed the hard-earned lessons he gleaned from interviewing more than 1,000 successfu...

Are your customer service representatives ducks or eagles?  An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart @Nordstrom @Disney @SouthwestAir

You might say (or even sing) that Beth Kendall and her husband Bill are as lucky as lucky can be. The couple, after all, have co-owned All Out Chimney Sweep in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past 35-plus years. With all due respect to Mary Poppins and her friend Bert, successfully running and maintaining a 21st Century chimney sweep business in the face of advancing technologies and changing co...

Since he co-wrote The One Minute Manager in 1982, Ken Blanchard has rarely been off the bestsellers list, having authored or co-authored 60 books and landed a spot in Amazon.com's  Hall of Fame, as one of the 25 top revenue generators of all time. One of Dr. Blanchard's favorite topics over the years has been customer service and how businesses can excel at it. He recently reissued his 2005 book,...

This week's special guest, Matt Mason , was recently appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts to be the state's official poet. It's a position whose roots date back to 1921 and highlights the fact that the Cornhusker state is quite fertile ground for literary creativity. For almost ten years, Matt has served as executive director of the Nebraska Writers Collective , a nonprofit group that prom...

For a business to be truly successful, it requires executives who excel at managing their employees and, according to Andy Singer , employees who excel at managing their executives. Andy is the founder and CEO of Singer Executive Development , a Florida consultancy that trains both executives and employees on ways to maximize their performance, including managing each other well. As Andy tells hos...

With roughly 90 million dogs in America and tens of millions of dog-lovers, it probably was inevitable that Happy Tails Canine Adventure Tours would emerge – offering eco-tours designed especially for dog lovers and their companions. David Blank , who along with his wife Claudia co-founded the company in 2018, is a veteran of the travel tour industry as well as a professional dog trainer. He's dec...

Despite all of the television viewing options open to today's consumers – broadcast, cable, satellite, and streaming – surprising little of the available programming is local, much less hyperlocal, in nature. Simon Bray , a veteran Fort Wayne entrepreneur, is on a mission to change that. Simon is the founder and CEO of Streaming Television , which is rolling out laser-focused local programming cha...