Monday Morning Radio

In his award-winning 2021 book about the aftermath of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, September Twelfth , Monday Morning Radio co-host Dean Rotbart described Gwendolyn "Wendy" Bounds , an eyewitness and award-winning journalist. She was, he wrote, telegenically attractive, with big chocolate-brown eyes, a sparkly broad smile, and shoulder-length buttery blond hair blended with honey...

Pop quiz, hotshot. Hackers have frozen you out of your own databases. They tell you that if you want back in, you have to pay them a ransom in the next 24 hours. Oh, and if you don't want them to sell your clients' data on the black market, that's another hefty fee, too. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO? That's the question that keeps  Terry Ziemniak , TechCXO 's fractional chief information securit...

When business owners and entrepreneurs struggle to resolve an intractable problem, they often blame everyone and everything but the true culprit. Themselves. Often, what they should be thinking, says  Steve McCready — who spent more than 15 years as a psychotherapist before becoming a business coach — is, "It's not you, it's me." Steve is a "magic eraser" for the root causes of many business probl...

When it comes to talented business people, there is a hierarchy of ability: skilled, expert, masterful, and brilliant. Brilliant is the realm where   Simon T. Bailey operates and teaches others how to elevate their performance from proficient to awesome. A former Disney sales executive, Simon has written multiple books on the topic and has been invited to be a keynote speaker at more than 2,400 ev...

Michelle D. Gladieux will celebrate 20 years of running her company, Gladieux Consulting , this year. Michelle and her colleagues have advised hundreds of companies, including Best Buy , General Dynamics , Lincoln Financial , and Medtronic , on ways their executives and employees can communicate more effectively to improve their performance and satisfaction. Michelle is one of 21 previous Monday M...

Bryan Clayton , CEO and co-founder of Your Green Pal , uses a proprietary app to match homeowners who need lawn care with small businesses - many of them solo operators - that provide those services. His numbers are impressive: more than 55,000 entrepreneurs serving over half a million customers. Bryan began mowing lawns in high school and essentially never quit. Today, he runs a $30 million compa...

Forbes magazine describes Sol Rashidi as one of the nine brightest minds when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. She was part of the first generation of leaders who helped  IBM launch Watson , the powerful machine-learning suite of AI services, applications, and tools.  In addition to IBM, Sol has worked for EY , Sony Music , Merck , and Estee Lauder .  Sol is the author of the new book Your AI...

Over the course of his career, including stints at PayPal , Cisco , and Nike , Sean Lemson has encountered all varieties of leaders — good, bad, and toxic. Toxic leaders are a special breed of "bad," capable, often without even realizing it, of chasing off the best employees and slowly killing their companies. Sean is the founder of Motivated Outcomes , which coaches corporate leaders on rooting t...

On May 7th and 8th, experts from government, industry, small business, and academia will come together in Washington, D.C., for the 2024 Humans to Mars Summit focused on sending humans to Mars. The event, the largest such gathering on earth, is being organized by Chris Carberry, the CEO and Co-Founder of Explore Mars Inc. ,  a nonprofit dedicated to fostering a permanent human presence on the Red...

Scott Mautz is a former senior executive with Procter & Gamble , whose free leadership classes on LinkedIn have attracted more than two million registrants. Scott, who ran four of P&G's multi-billion dollar businesses, knows what it takes to be an effective leader. That's why he advises all owners and entrepreneurs to work out daily. But Scott doesn't mean bench pressing or squats. He's a champion...

Whether you are a solo entrepreneur, a small business owner, or the head of a FORTUNE 500 company, innovation is within your grasp — if you understand what it is and isn't. This week's guest, Steve Wunker , managing director of New Markets Advisors , is widely acknowledged as one of the country's foremost masters of innovation. He pioneered the mobile marketing and commerce industries, and is resp...

Does your business have a mascot, a team jersey, and team-related merchandise for sale? Probably not. Fredrick "Freddy D" Dudek has spent more than three decades studying how companies can turn their employees, customers, and business affiliates into the kind of raging fans that sports teams enjoy. He is the author of Creating Business Superfans: The Time-Tested Playbook That Converts Your Custome...

This week's guest, David Page , is a well-known expert on American cuisine, culture, and entrepreneurship. The two-time Emmy-award winner and veteran broadcast journalist is best known for creating the Food Network hit Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and serving as its executive producer for eleven seasons. David, president and executive producer of Page Productions , understands why some restaurants...

As a physician, Hanah Polotsky is an expert in treating diabetes, thyroid disorders, and serious hormonal abnormalities. As a leadership expert, Dr. Polotsky excels at showing executives — both in and outside the medical field — how best to run teams and apply the tenets of lean management to their organizations. A native of Belarus who fled to the United States at 17 to escape rampant anti-Semiti...

When it comes to running a competitive company, Bob Moog doesn't play games. Well, actually, he does. Daily. Bob is co-founder and president of University Games , the largest independent game company in the world. For almost four decades, Bob has gone up against the biggest players — including Hasbro and Mattel — and found a way to beat them at their own game. Pun intended. In fact, University Gam...

He'd be the oldest man ever to run for president, even as calls grow louder and louder for him to step aside. Joe Biden? No, William Henry Harrison, the successful 67-year-old Whig Party candidate back in 1840.  Tying yesteryear to current events is Ron Shafer 's specialty. His contributions to  The Washington Post 's Retropolis history column form the basis of two of his engaging books, Breaking...

Most people fail to say their own name correctly. Odd as that may sound,  Laura Sicola explains her assertion in a YouTube video that is approaching 7 million views. Dr. Sicola earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in educational linguistics and taught there from 2001-2013. She has more than two decades of experience teaching good vocal habits to executives at companies including Comc...

Each year, roughly 700,000 American businesses or individuals submit a trademark application. That may sound like a considerable number, but Andrei Mincov — a superstar trademark lawyer based in Dubai, says it's far less than it should be. Before starting The Trademark Factory , his global consultancy that provides start-to-finish trademark registration services, Andrei worked for Baker & McKenzie...

This week, enter the inner sanctums of Microsoft Corp .'s executive suite and discover the tech wizards and vipers who worked there. \ Our guest is Jane Boulware , author of Worthy: From Cornfield to Corner Office of Microsoft . Over the course of her career, Jane launched three billion dollar businesses, was VP of the largest merger in U.S. history, and became one of the ten highest-ranking women...

From her base in far-off Christchurch, New Zealand, Rebecca Davison — who spent 13 years in banking, five as a financial advisor to multimillionaires — has built a global, cult-like following among female entrepreneurs, including top business leaders.   Rebecca, founder of The Intuitive Life Academy , has the knowledge to advise her followers on ways to earn more money and leverage their investmen...

Phebe Trotman knows the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat in both the sports and business arenas. A former MVP Canadian college soccer star and member of the championship Vancouver Whitecaps professional soccer club, Phebe has had plenty of bad days and opportunities to bow out. She's never taken them. Phebe is the author of Never Quit on a Bad Day , a compendium of inspiring stories of re...

Leading business schools and best-selling leadership authors seldom compare the skills required of for-profit CEOs and non-profit fire chiefs. Yet, the two professions share a lot in common. Indeed, battling blazes is excellent preparation for dousing the many firestorms business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs face. This week's guest, Clive Savacool , devoted 25 years as a Northern Californ...

After 16 years as a wedding photographer, Ryan Erickson concluded he was barking up the wrong tree.  He was making decent money but didn't have a passion for his work. It was risky, but Ryan decided to try his hand at fine art photography, and he's been so successful early on that he's thinking of expanding his fledgling enterprise nationwide. Ryan's discerning clients are willing to pay up for hi...

Can you imagine what it would have been like to have an exclusive four-hour audience with the late Charlie Munger ?  The billionaire businessman, who died in late November at age 99, never got as much press as his close friend and partner Warren Buffett. But many people credited Munger with helping secure Berkshire Hathaway 's decades-long stellar investment performance. Just weeks before Munger p...

A New Year's Quiz: What do the following have in common: Leadership, Economics, Side Hustles, Online Retailing, Business Exit Strategies, Military Contracts, Bras, Walt Disney, Firefighters, and Worms? Answer :  Each was featured on one of Monday Morning Radio 's ten most popular 2023 episodes. This week, the podcast revisits the highlights of the year past and shares an audio preview of our first...