Monday Morning Radio

When recruiting new hires, Andrea Hoffer leaves little to chance. After ten years of running her own business with a hit-and-all-too-frequent-miss record recruiting and retaining staff, Andrea concluded there must be a better way. She not only developed a structured process for attracting and keeping employees but found her method to be so successful that she built and now is CEO of AHA! Recruitin...

Ted Clark , author of Buy & Build CEO: Leveraging Private Equity to Build a Winning Global Business , is an expert on how successful business owners and entrepreneurs can become uber-wealthy. He has spent more than four decades as a business executive and investor, and is currently a partner in Nashville-based Iron Path Capital .  After starting out as a shipping clerk, has climbed the heights of...

A computer engineer by training, Joseph Fung has founded five technology companies, helped to back 20 startups, and now is the CEO of Uvaro , a rapidly growing career success company that provides lifelong training for those in a variety of professional roles, including sales, account management, customer service, and leadership. Host Dean Rotbart describes Joseph as a walking encyclopedia of busi...

At the peak of his popularity in the 1980s, electronics retailer "Crazy Eddie" was better known for his screaming and gesticulating television commercials promoting "insane" prices than were then- Mayor Ed Koch and President Ronald Regan . Thousands of customers would flock to store openings, hoping to nab a free t-shirt and get a glimpse of the unhinged pitchman. Behind the scenes, however, Eddie...

[November 29th is Giving Tuesday , a day for lending your support to worthy non-profits. This week's podcast opens with a brief interview with Lisa Weyer , executive director of the All Kids Bike campaign and its parent, the Strider Education Foundation. All Kids Bike is on a mission to teach every child in America how to ride a bike in kindergarten PE class.] Michael Beckley , an author and profe...

Forty days remain in 2022. Forty days to wrap up unfinished business and set course for the New Year. What can you accomplish between now and year-end to further your goals and check worrisome tasks off your to-do list? Dr. Sarah Reiff-Hekking answers, "Plenty."  Dr. Sarah, a psychologist with more than 20 years of experience, is one of the nation's preeminent experts on coaching entrepreneurs and...

In the third season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , B-List actor Robert Kerbeck played a Cardassian soldier, unrecognizable under facial prosthetics and heavy makeup. But the alien disguise was child's play compared to the many real-life guises Robert adopted over his long career as a highly paid corporate spy, absconding with invaluable, private intelligence so detailed it would make the CIA prou...

As a veteran manager of hundreds of employees, London-based author Jim Edwards would grade himself only a solid "B" as a supervisor. So why do business owners and entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic turn to Jim in impressive numbers for his recommendations on how they can perform better in leadership roles? The reason, says Jim, the author of Say Thank You For Everything , is that you don'...

Todd Mitchell is an award-winning author of novels for young readers. He teaches writing and literature at Colorado State University and has worked with thousands of writers. But Todd is much more than a university professor. He's a creativity sherpa for all writers, artists, musicians, actors, entrepreneurs, and innovators who, at times, experience doubt, struggle, and failure. While Todd's lates...

Sitting in jail - facing a 13-year sentence - Rob Lohman had plenty of time to review his past: alcohol and drug addiction, gambling, bankruptcies, and even a suicide attempt.  That was in 2012. Since then, Rob, who was released from prison after less than a year, has not only turned his life around, he's used savvy self-marketing to build a for-profit business guiding thousands of other men and w...

Over the past decade, if you paid taxes, borrowed money, invested, or bought goods and services, no single elected or appointed government official has had more influence over your wallet than Janet Yellen .  In fact, no person in American history has served — as Yellen has — in three influential government economic posts: Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, then Chair of the Fe...

The title of Chris De Santis 's new book is sure to resonate with employers and employees alike: Why I Find You Irritating: Navigating Generational Friction at Work . Many business owners and veteran company employees find their younger colleagues irritating —  failing to share their values and work ethic. Guess what? The feeling is mutual, as Millennials and GenZers often lack respect for their o...

Steve Curtin , ranked as one of the top 30 customer service experts in the world — with clients that include Carnival Cruise Line , NAPA Auto Parts , and TJ Maxx — believes that every owner and manager needs to have "The Revelation Conversation" with each of their employees. The conversation, which is the focus of Steve's latest book , is designed to address the question of why their job and their...

You may have never heard of Jonathan Dahl . But six times a year, he produces a glossy magazine that reaches 1.8 million high-powered global executives and owners, in addition to a weekly online newsletter that has surpassed 3.5 million annual page views. What's special about Jonathan is that he doesn't work for a mainstream news organization. Rather, he generates what he calls "dazzling corporate...

Sean Castrina says there are eight unbreakable rules that entrepreneurs who want to be a success must follow. Given that Sean has launched more than 20 companies over the past two decades — most of them successes — he knows more than a little about the dos and don'ts of competing effectively in the cutthroat business marketplace. Sean is by no means lazy, but as he tells host and award-winning aut...

Among the robber barons of the late 19th century, none was more ruthless and unscrupulous than Jay Gould , who amassed a fortune greater than that of the Rockefellers. During Gould's life, he controlled the country's largest railroad empire, Western Union , and even the New York World newspaper (which he sold to Joseph Pulitzer in 1883). Today, Gould is all but forgotten outside of academia. But h...

July 4th is the perfect time for fireworks, barbecues, and according to Lynette M. Smith , writing personal, heartfelt letters to colleagues, friends, family members, and others who enrich your life. Lynette is a letter-writing evangelist who has authored multiple books on the art and impact of crafting the type of communications that will be saved and savored for years, even decades to come. [Get...

What can an annual race featuring weiner dogs teach serious entrepreneurs and business owners about correctly predicting the outcome of any marketing campaign before spending a dime on testing the concept? Plenty. That's the bottom line of Peter Nevland 's latest book, Wiener Dog Marketing: A Silly Sounding Book for Serious Business Growth . The fast read not only features lessons Peter has gleane...

CLOCKWISE: Dean Rotbart, Matt Quayle, Peter Coy, Henry Dubroff, Matt Murray, and Chris Roush   A special audio/video edition of Monday Morning Radio presenting a panel of distinguished journalists discussing the future of business journalism. TO VIEW THE VIDEO, CLICK HERE . This is the first episode in the 11th year of the business-to-business podcast. Everyone who owns a business, operates a prof...

As the top journalist and now CEO of Fortune Media — publisher of Fortune magazine, Fortune.com , and an increasing array of live Fortune global conferences — Alan Murray is one of the most influential business journalists in the country. In his capacity as the head of Fortune , Alan has the opportunity to keep company with many of the world's most prominent and influential people, including presi...

Most people don't think of Hollywood celebrities as entrepreneurs. But Craig Archibald , founder of The Archibald Studio , is not most people. A well-established acting coach, Craig has mentored talents including Eric Roberts , Dan Futterman , John Slattery , and Constance Wu . One of the first lessons he drills into his clients' minds is that acting is a highly competitive business , and if they...

As an active U.S. Army Colonel, Christopher Kolenda — a West Point graduate — led 800 paratroopers stationed in Afghanistan. Six of his soldiers were killed under his command. The loss of his troops and the lessons he learned about effective leadership during his storied military career are front and center in Col. Kolenda's mind this Memorial Day. Col. Kolenda is the author of Leadership: The War...

Brian Scudamore was a high school dropout. Waiting at a McDonald's drive-through, he spotted a ratty old pickup with "Junk Hauling" spray-painted on the side. "I could do that," Brian told himself. Driven by an insatiable curiosity and inspired to do things bigger and better, Brian bought a beat-up old truck and launched what today is the $600 million global industry giant, 1-800-Got-Junk , which...

One of the most popular characters in Charles M. Schultz' s Peanuts comic strip is Linus Van Pelt , Charlie Brown's best friend. Linus displays great wisdom even as he clings to his always-present blue security blanket. Dr. Victoria Grady , an organization expert with decades of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, sees similarities between Linus and the type of "attachment behavior" tha...

Tim Redmond, CEO of Redmond Growth Consulting , has spent more than 35 years mentoring plumbers, electricians, landscapers, remodelers, and other small bricks-and-mortar business owners on ways to dramatically improve their performance. Tim relies on an unusual framework for his growth principles: The Bible. While Tim's clients come from all religions and denominations, he looks to teachings in th...