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Category: Family Businesses and Partnerships

Janet Christy
Do you know how to get out of your own way?
Featuring Janet Christy December 22, 2015
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to tell the story of one small business that couldn’t make changes to put the past behind them so they could be relevant today.
Janet Christy
Rules for family businesses
Featuring Janet Christy December 22, 2015
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the definition of a family business and offer some tips on how to run one more successfully.
Susan Sokol Blosser
A great American entrepreneurial story about reinvention
Featuring Susan Sokol Blosser September 01, 2015
Susan Sokol Blosser joins Jim Blasingame to tell her story about reinventing herself from a family winery owner to creating and operating an important non-profit organization.
Susan Sokol Blosser
A great American entrepreneurial wine story
Featuring Susan Sokol Blosser September 01, 2015
Susan Sokol Blosser joins Jim Blasingame to tell her entrepreneurial story about how she became a winery owner, which really meant she was a farmer, and how it became a family business.
Rick Maurer
How 3% of your organization can derail your plans
Featuring Rick Maurer August 27, 2015
Rick Maurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how a very small element in your organization can have a significant impact, good or bad, on the direction of a project or your business.
Carl Johnson
What are the first steps of preparation for a business exit?
Featuring Carl Johnson August 11, 2015
Carl Johnson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the timing and some of the firsts steps to take to get your business ready to be handed off to the next owner, whether family or not.
Carl Johnson
Why aren’t American family businesses ready for succession?
Featuring Carl Johnson August 11, 2015
Carl Johnson joins Jim Blasingame to report on a new international study that shows 80% of family-owned businesses in the U. S. are not ready for succession to the next owner.
Edward Kopf
Can you identify future partners who play the negative sum game?
Featuring Edward Kopf June 05, 2015
Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the damage a partner who has a negative sum game personality can do to your business and how to identify them before you join them.
Edward Kopf
Identifying small people who play the negative sum game
Featuring Edward Kopf June 05, 2015
Ed Kopf joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the different kinds of values of people and which game they play: positive, zero or negative sum game.
Ed Basler
What’s the key to entrepreneurial success?
Featuring Ed Basler April 27, 2015
Ed Basler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that he thinks having a vision and being committed to it is the primary key to entrepreneurial success, followed by good financial records.

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