Rick Lepsinger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that there are four key components of transformational leadership, including calling, charisma, challenge and caring.

Rick Lepsinger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that transformational leadership focuses on the macro, visionary level of an organization, while transactional is more at the micro and strategic level.

Donald Hunter joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges of taking a technically-trained person and converting them into a manager of people.

Donald Hunter joins Jim Blasingame to recommend taking into account your emotional state before making big steps and decisions, and finding a way to reset yourself before taking that step.

Beverly Flaxington joins Jim Blasingame to encourage you to define the culture of your business and then hire people who contribute to the best aspects of that culture.

Beverly Flaxington joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that like branding, someone is defining the culture in your business, and if it isn’t you, then you aren’t in complete control of your business.

Jim Blasingame reveals what goes on in the head and heart of an entrepreneur when it’s time to pull the trigger on a risk that you know could turn out to be good or not so much.

Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how weather can take a toll on a retail business, and how to manage your marketing and customer care around it.

Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why growth is not self-funding, and why you have to provide for the capital to support your level of growth, or you will not survive.

Steve Martin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the operating fundamentals that haven’t and won’t change, regardless of how much new stuff we get, including cash flow, profitability, and growth is not self-funding.