Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to recommend some thoughts on how to accept, expect and deal with the stress that’s inherent in the small business landscape.

Gail Ferreira joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the steps to create an agile enterprise, which includes transparency, collaboration, and innovate with the build, measure and learn process.

Ken Tencer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why there are many lessons that we can all learn from the success stories of family-owned businesses, including the power of leveraging shared values.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to determine that if a project fails, was it because we didn’t have the best information, or that we had bad systems and processes.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why what we’ve already invested in a project that is failing – the sunk costs – is not a reason to continue throwing good money after bad, and how to develop viability metrics.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that most of us have difficulty admitting that one of our ideas isn’t going to work out, and how that real tendency costs us more than we know.

Jim Canterucci joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the power of trust in your organization, and why the companies that have high trust are the high performers.

Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that coaching, encouraging ownership, communication and encouraging fun are keys to creating an environment where your key people want to stay put.

Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that if you don’t know what an excellent employee is for any particular position you’re hiring for, you won’t be able to make an educated hiring decision, and offers some suggestions on how to do that.

John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the key markers of an entrepreneur, including having a well-developed sense of how the marketplace works, and as well as the financial elements of business operation.