Monday Morning Radio

Ken Lindner is a professional development maestro, having helped choreograph the careers of thousands of individuals from all walks of life. Among the many professionals he's helped guide are leading broadcast personalities, including Lester Holt , Deborah Norville , Dr. Sanjay Gupta , Leeza Gibbon s, and Matt Lauer . Ken's approach to careers — and life in general - is simple: Make better choices...

Stephen Kreider Yoder and his wife, Karen , had been married for 42 years when last summer — at a combined age of 127 — the two successfully rode a tandem bike 3,819 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The 12-week adventure taught the couple a multitude of lessons about teamsmanship, resilience, planning (and spontaneity), the hospitality of strangers, the beauty of...

Two of the country's top experts on leadership — men who write bestselling books and get paid the big bucks to mentor top executives — confess that managing others doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, Ken Blanchard — who has sold more than 23 million copies of his books worldwide — and his colleague Randy Conley contend that outstanding leadership boils down to two common-sense ingredients: bu...

The life and death of Tony Hsieh , the billionaire CEO of online shoe-seller Zappos , is a master class in visionary business leadership and a cautionary tale about how fame can mask profound problems. Hsieh, who sold Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion, died in a mysterious shed fire in late November 2020 at age 46. This week, two reporters for The Wall Street Journal — Kirsten Grind and Katherine...

Here is a harsh truth: Many entrepreneurs have no business running their own businesses. In a no-holds-barred conversation with host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart , bestselling author Gino Wickman draws an impermeable line between those who have the right stuff to succeed in business and those who never will, no matter how hard they try. Wickman is the creator of " The Entrepreneurial...

Ann Papayoti has plenty of reasons to be bitter. She lost an infant child, had another born with epilepsy, and was married to a belligerent and abusive husband. But Ann chose to make peace with her past. Today, she is a successful self-help author and life coach who mentors others on how to overcome all manner of life setbacks. What allows people to prevail over their difficulties is what Ann call...

Good PR has become everyone's responsibility, regardless of your industry or job title. That is a core message shared by a distinguished panel of three experts on this week's edition of Monday Morning Radio . Leading the panel is Robert L. Dilenschneider , editor of the newly published fifth edition of The Public Relations Handbook, a must-read for communications practitioners and a valuable refer...

Last week, due to a technical glitch at the service that hosts Monday Morning Radio , some listeners heard half of one podcast while others listened to a completely different episode. So this week, we are offering a double-header. In center stage is David Hailey , founder of Countifi . This cutting-edge concern uses a combination of computer vision and artificial intelligence to help companies in...

This week, a special edition of Monday Morning Radio features a conversation with Anton Suddia , a Ukraine-based expert on augmented reality. Recorded Sunday, February 27th, Anton shares his very personal and compelling story of how his life has changed since Russia invaded Ukraine four days earlier. Anton previously appeared on this podcast in September 2016 , discussing the global effort to brin...

There is only so much room at the top of the corporate ladder. What can owners and CEOs do to retain and incentivize good employees when no more executive slots are available? According to Julie Winkle Giulioni , a human resources expert and bestselling author, there are excellent alternatives to promotions. Besides, many employees no longer want all the drama and responsibilities that come with u...

To sell his first book, Man Interrupted , James Bailey — a sufferer of severe obsessive-compulsive behavior who was living out of his car at the time — staked out bookstores and celebrity haunts in Malibu, Santa Monica, and other well-to-do Southern California towns.  When he spotted stars, he unashamedly pressed them to buy his book or at the very least accept a free copy. Bob Dylan bought one. S...

Douglas Holmes is a veteran investment banker who sees massive potential in telemedicine. His latest venture is DermatologistOnCall features a network of board-certified dermatologists who provide telemedicine services in all 50 states, and can even offer an in-home melanoma test. The secret of DermatologistOnCall's success, Douglas tells award-winning author and journalist Dean Rotbart , is the a...

A California entrepreneur, Melissa Joseph , has combined her love poetry and her life-long habit of writing personal Thank You notes to launch a new business, Lotus Cards: Notecards with Heart . The cards offer mix-and-match whimsical original poetic sentiments — each composed by Melissa — with a variety of unique, stylistic cover art. With Valentine's Day only two weeks off, Melissa's cards make...

This week, in Part Two of host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart 's conversation with business historian Gary Hoover , the two turn their attention to women and minorities who overcame long odds to build or lead successful companies. They'll also reveal the failures and rebounds of some great American companies and share the story of one executive whose business failed, and afterward, he w...

Back in November, when General Electric announced its plan to break itself into three different companies, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart invited business historian Gary Hoover to share the lessons of GE's fall from grace. Hoover is the executive director of the American Business History Center and the author of Bedtime Business Stories: Short Sagas of Business Creation, Success, a...

Host Dean Rotbart is being mysterious about his guests this week on Monday Morning Radio . All he'll say is that their names are Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis and between the two of them, their clients have included Apple , Dell Computers , Boeing , Toyota , and Honda . Peter and Jeffrey have a "how-to" business book coming out next month that the authors promise will have entertaining, actionab...

If Clay Stafford were to put all of his titles on a single business card, it would be one mammoth ID. Clay is, among other things, an award-winning author — having sold nearly four million copies of his books, a poet, a screenwriter and playwright, film and television producer, director, showrunner, actor, educator, reviewer, and public speaker. Oh yes, he is also the founder of The Killer Nashvil...

Imagine learning best business practices from the former vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton , Chairman of Chiquita Brands International , publisher and CEO of the Chicago Sun Times , and directors at Virgin America and Allegheny Energy . You wouldn't actually need a very big room, since Cyrus Freidheim filled everyone of those roles during his 55-year business career, as well as stints at Union...

Until they turn 25 years old, most individuals are really only life "interns." Full life begins once we enter our mid-20s. At its core, that is what Robert L. Dilenscneider 's latest book, Nailing It: How History's Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together , is about. Dilenschneider, an accomplished author and communications consultant, tells the story of 25 well-known personalities when they were...

Treating all of your employees equally may seem like an ideal approach. But it's not. The one-size-fits-all approach, says Minal Bopaiah , an expert in diversity, equity and inclusion, often holds back employees who don't fit the prototypical characteristics of today's workforce. The better approach, Minal tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart , is to design a human-centered organiz...

Some of the world's most successful investors are also some of the happiest people on earth. It's not because they are rich — money still won't buy happiness — but because they are able to think more rationally, rigorously, and objectively when it comes to every aspect of their lives. In his book, Richer, Wiser, Happier: How The World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life , author William G...

Change has changed. That is the premise of bestselling author Erika Andersen 's latest book, Change from the Inside Out , a primer for businesses and individuals on how to rethink change — typically viewed as difficult, costly, and uncomfortable — and instead embrace it as doable, rewarding, and routine. Erika, founder of Proteus International , is a consultant and advisor to top executives at org...

Last week's partial lunar eclipse attracted millions of people to gaze at our nearest celestial neighbor. One of them, Daniel Sax , has designs on more than just staring at the moon. He intends to mine the crusty orb for water and oxygen, essentials that future planetary travelers will need to sustain them on lunar bases and fuel their voyages to Mars and beyond. Daniel is the co-founder of Toront...

For more than a century, General Electric stood as a beacon of American manufacturing and ingenuity. The 129-year-old company was once the most valuable U.S. corporation; its brand emblazoned on tens of thousands of products from light bulbs to nuclear power plants. On November 8th, GE, which has been in decline for years, announced that it would spin out its remaining operations into three separa...

Fear is a stick that many bosses use to squeeze extra productivity out of their employees: Fear of job loss, fear of career stagnation, and even fear of humiliation in front of their colleagues. There remains a place for fear in the workplace — when well-managed —  but two former McKinsey and Company consultants have helped more than 1,000 business leaders and hundreds of organizations embrace the...