On the Brink with Andi Simon

Listen now as Betty Ng talks about the power of helping people achieve great things ! I recently had a wonderful conversation with Betty Ng that I am anxious to share with you. In April of this year, Betty published an amazing book with her mother, Po-Ling Ng, called  " PO-LING POWER: Propelling Yourself and Others to Success ."   Widowed at an early age, Po-Ling had to raise her four children wit...

Listen now as Mike Scott explains w hy accountability is so important to an organization's success ! One of the reasons I love our On The Brink podcasts is that they give me, and you, the opportunity to learn from thought leaders, CEOs and innovators who proactively look at changes that are coming their way and figure out ways to help their businesses adapt. This often means taking a look at their...

Listen now as Marton Ven talks about how blockchain is revolutionizing the food industry! Wow, the future is coming fast! In this On The Brink podcast, Marton Ven and I talk about the growing, global use of blockchain to ensure that the food you are buying is the food you  think  you are buying. How? Through farm-to-table traceability technology.   Marton is Chief Marketing Officer for TE-FOOD Int...

Listen now as Theresa Carrington shares how she helps shift artisans from poverty to prosperity! Once in a while, I get to interview someone who is not only doing great things in the business world but also in the human world. That would be Theresa Carrington, founder of the non-profit  Ten By Three  (formerly The Blessing Basket Project), a social entrepreneurship program that is both profitable...

Listen now to my podcast about how to bring real, lasting change to your organization !    Welcome to Part 3 of the work we've been doing on change management, change mapping and creating change management strategies. Now, you're ready to learn the steps to take to actually bring about real change in your organization. Your task is to make the undesirable desirable, and to do this, two things have...

Listen now as Dr. Emile Heisiger explains how we can improve America's health! As you know, our podcast On The Brink is all about bringing to you entrepreneurs, thought leaders, innovators, CEOs...people who are changing things, who somehow see, feel and think in new ways. So it was quite fascinating to interview Dr. Emile Heisiger, one of America's leading neurologists who specializes in the diag...

Listen now to my podcast about overcoming the pain of change!    I hope you joined me for my last podcast, the first in our series of three Ask Andi's on change management. In that one, I  set the stage for identifying your archetype and why it is so important to know who the people in your organization are, and who your organization itself is, so that you can better understand what you're going t...

Listen now as Nigel Parker teaches us how to move from concept to creating a business! What's the secret to business success? Identifying a need, then coming up with an innovative solution that answers that need (that no one else has thought of yet). That's exactly what my guest today, Nigel Parker, did. Nigel's cousin Colleen, a neonatal nurse, realized that there was a way to heal bed sores by c...

Listen now to my podcast about how to manage change in turbulent times!  At  SAMC , we've recently had a growing number of requests to do workshops or provide consulting support for companies that have been struggling with changing their organization. We thought that managing change is probably something you want to know more about as well. So to help you in your process, we've put together three...

Listen now as Jared Tate fills us in on DigiByte, the blockchain juggernaut! Are you ready for your world to be disrupted? Hang on tight because it's going to be. Blockchain is quickly infiltrating every kind of human interaction, from banking to real estate to healthcare to just about anything you can think of. My guest today is Jared Tate, founder and creator of DigiByte, the world's longest, fa...

Listen now as Mike Pierce tells us what makes a great leader! I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Pierce (Antarctic Mike), a highly engaging business speaker who, when he's not giving keynote presentations, can often be found at the bottom of the world. What's so interesting about Mike is that he looks at leadership in a very unique way—through the lens of Antarctic history—and draws...

Listen now as Karen Guzicki and Mike Schuler teach us how to create harmonious teams! As a  corporate anthropologist , I found my recent podcast with  Karen Guzicki and Mike Schuler fascinating on many levels. As  consultants in the Executive and Organizational Development space, they focus on how people's behaviors influence their roles in work teams. (Right up my alley.) And what they've found a...

Listen now as Tom Fox explains how compliance drives business success! In today's podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with and learning from Tom Fox, one of the nation's leading writers, thinkers and commentators on corporate compliance. Known as the Compliance Evangelist, Tom has recently published  " The   Co mplete Compliance Handbook "  which  provides the most up-to-date guidance availabl...

Listen now to my podcast about how to go visually exploring!  Recently, I did an Ask Andi session on Blue Ocean Strategy Part 1, and I've gotten wonderful feedback on it. People want to know, what do they do next?  They've done their strategic canvas but where do they go from there? Once you have a visual awakening, you're ready to go visually exploring, which is a very exciting part of the  Blue...

Listen now as Rob Marchalonis talks about how to incentivize your employees to achieve amazing things! Do your employees come to work every day wanting to  build a better business ? Or are they disengaged, distracted and discouraged, costing your company time, money and opportunities? I f it's the latter, don't miss this podcast with my guest Rob Marchalonis, founder of  LSP123  and creator of  In...

Listen now as TaRita Johnson shows us how to build better relationships! Ever wonder why some relationships at work, home, among friends or family, just don't work out the way you thought? Maybe you need a dose of Emotional Intelligence (EI).  What's that, you ask? Take a listen to TaRita Johnson and learn how EI helps you build stronger relationships with better results by pausing, reflecting and...

Listen now to Scott Beebe teach you how to stop working IN the business and get your life back! This podcast is a perfect complement to so many of the things we do at  Simon Associates  (SAMC). Our guest today is Scott Beebe, whose specialty is helping small businesses organize themselves better for growth. He says, as do we, that if you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there. Far t...

Listen now as Barbara Walters explains how to create a culture of respect and inclusion In our interview with Barbara Walters, President of  The HR Advantage , we dig deep into the changes CEOs are facing as organizations must rapidly adapt to today's new business environment. As Barbara tells us, she started out in the male-dominated corporate America of the 1990s. Thankfully, times have changed...

Listen now to my podcast about how to find your Blue Ocean Strategy!  Today, I want to talk about Blue Ocean Strategy, the methodology and book created by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim. This year they launched a new book called  "Blue Ocean Shift,"  an excellent 2nd version of the Blue Ocean Strategy approach to help you see, feel and think in new ways about your business in these rapidly-changi...

Are you an entrepreneur? Is your dream to start, grow, and then sell your own business? If so, you're going to love this podcast with Rod Robertson, Managing Partner and Founder of Briggs Capital. In our conversation and in his powerhouse book,  Winning at Entrepreneurship: Insider Tips on Buying, Building, and Selling your own Business ,"  Rod shares his success secrets for maximizing value for b...

Are you playing to win or merely playing not to lose? Don't miss my fascinating conversation with Holly Green, CEO of The Human Factor, which helps business leaders and their companies succeed by clarifying what winning looks like and then determining how to get there. Using the latest brain science techniques, Holly teaches organizations how to think differently and be truly innovative so they ca...

Listen now to Gil Cargill talk about how to energize your salesforce for amazing results! One of the recurring questions we get from our clients is how to fix an underperforming sales team. No matter what they've tried—carrots and sticks, personal coaching, sales training—nothing has worked. Then along comes Gil Cargill with his novel approach to building sales teams, resulting in exploding sales...

As you know, On the Brink podcast is all about helping you "see, feel and think" in new ways so you can really soar! In this episode, I interview Michelle Turman, bestselling author and Principle of Catalyst Consulting Services, whose mission is to facilitate positive change in businesses and non-profits. It is so hard to  drive change . But that is what we must do to adapt to these fast-changing...

Listen now to my podcast about how resilience turns bad situations into great opportunities! As you know, at  SAMC  we are anthropologists and we work with organizations that need or want to change. I do these Ask Andi sessions because I think the questions people ask are so valuable to others and well worth sharing. I love your questions, keep sending them! This one is about resilience. How do yo...

Listen to Michael Menerey teach us how to lower healthcare costs by challenging the status quo!  If you are the founder of a business, an entrepreneur growing your business or a CEO trying to stay in business, you probably are watching your healthcare costs and employee benefits soaring out of sight. What to do? The first step is to listen what to Michael Menerey, Senior Vice President and Benefit...