The Third Growth Option with Benno Duenkelsbuehler and Guests
168 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Welcome to The Third Growth Option, where we're not just talking about growth—we're making it our mission.
At TGO, we understand that success isn't a fixed destination; it's an ongoing journey with twists, turns, and unexpected detours that take us to new places. Those moments are our Third Growth Options, where we throw away binary choices to create our own path.
Hosted by Benno Duenkelsbuehler, O.G #GrowthNerd, we're on a mission to redefine success inside and outside of business, one episode at a time. From humble beginnings to Fortune 500 companies, our stories are not just about business—it's about the relentless pursuit of greatness in every aspect of life.
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Episodes
BigCo’s Be Nimble, Mid-sized Companies Think Big
August 04, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Jason Hauer co-founded the Garage Group in Cincinnati, OH a dozen years ago – to teach executives in big companies to hustle, innovate, and grow like small start-ups. I founded (re)ALIGN to work with midsized companies to grow into new categories, new channels, or grow faster with a cross-functional go-to-market approach. That is to say, Jason and I talked about similar challenges from different perspectives. 3:26 – on the challenge with innovation in bigco’s “th...
A Rebel’s View on Growth
July 28, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Edgar Blazona is the real deal: he grew and learned as a punk-ass kid designer and furniture rebel, went to college in corporate America, continued as a serial entrepreneur and founded several successful companies, including Benchmade Modern, the folks who make and sell Rebellious Luxury by the inch. We talked about Edgar’s journey, changes in 21st century manufacturing and branding, and the importance of finding your own way. 3:31 – “I kept pushing buttons and find...
Market Pulse & Looking Ahead with 4 Industry Leaders
July 21, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBSend us a Text Message. Four consumer executives shared their thoughts on how volatile consumer spending (from lockdowns to supply chain chaos, increased demand and now 9% inflation) that affected 2020/21 is shaping up to affect the second half of 2022 and going into 2023. Real insights from real-world leaders: Allison Barrows (VP at Ganz, a designer/distributor of gift, décor, and apparel), John Toler (CEO at Evergreen Enterprises, a distributor/manufacturer of outdoor living and home...
Embracing Opposites to Grow
July 14, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Atul Vir is a study in opposites: an innovator and a CPA, an entrepreneur from a military school and family, an immigrant who came to the USA and built a global business. I found Atul’s insights on innovation, product development, risk assessment, and building a business to be thought provoking. 2:27 – talking about Steve Jobs’ influence on innovation and product development “instead of developing a product, now let me see how I can sell it… he focused it the oth...
Growing with People, During High Pressure
July 07, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBSend us a Text Message. What if developing people and teams in high pressure situations came down to being in the trenches with them, and food? OK, also about strategy, constantly evaluating yourself more than others, investing in them so they invest in you, and about food? Adding a dose of reality to what’s been said and written about leadership, growth, people, and winning talent wars – is my guest Craig McIntosh, a hard-charging sales executive, a long-time friend and senior leader with ...
Billion Dollar B2B Growth thru E-commerce
June 23, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBI learned a great deal in this episode from Brian Beck, a leading 23-year practitioner, expert, and operator in e-commerce: we talked about the why, what, and how of growing revenue streams through B2B e-commerce. Brian also wrote the book on the subject – Billion Dollar B2B Ecommerce – and our conversation touched on breaking down the complexity of e-commerce (into consumer-facing and operations-facing, pre-sale and post-sale), the importance of cross-functional translation and alignment, ...
Billion Dollar B2B Growth thru E-commerce
June 23, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBSend us a Text Message. I learned a great deal in this episode from Brian Beck, a leading 23-year practitioner, expert, and operator in e-commerce: we talked about the why, what, and how of growing revenue streams through B2B e-commerce. Brian also wrote the book on the subject – Billion Dollar B2B Ecommerce – and our conversation touched on breaking down the complexity of e-commerce (into consumer-facing and operations-facing, pre-sale and post-sale), the importance of cross-functional tr...
Growth thru e-Selling & Embracing Superpowers
February 17, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Scott Rollman is a deep thinker who listens, a strategist who is passionate about getting it done. In this episode, Scott shared his insights on e-selling (the intersection of digital marketing and personal selling), how digital marketing can best support sales efforts, and we also compared notes – from different cultural perspectives of Scott’s midwestern roots and my immigrant background – on the topic of embracing our superpowers and how to help others embrace the...
He Wrote the Book: Growing the Topline
February 10, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBSend us a Text Message. It’s fun to learn from fellow travelers on the growth journey. Cliff Farrah and I share a passion (some might even say talent) for envisioning the right growth strategy and guiding the process from concept to successful execution. Cliff founded The Beacon Group in 2001, a growth advisory for Fortune 500 companies and their organic and inorganic growth strategies, and recently authored a wonderful book. I read, enjoyed, and highly recommend Cliff’s book Growing th...
Learn to learn from Everyday Experts
February 03, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode is about how to bring the right people into the room, and how to facilitate the process to make better decisions. I learned not only about solutions to fundamental “people problems” in our democracy on this episode, I learned how Dani is approaching getting help from “everyday experts”: he took the business community’s “focus group” concept, improved on it, and applied it to public service, learning from bus riders, or hospital patients, or utility cust...
DEI – Embracing the Uncomfortable
January 27, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Understanding differences in people outside of our “tribe” – maybe outside of our comfort zone – can be, well, uncomfortable and difficult. Nicole Armstrong, founder/CEO of Queen City Certified shared her insights with me, how her team helps executives to guide them with DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) challenges, as the nation’s first data-informed employer certification program. 2:06 – “how do we create systems that make it possible for all people to suc...
Growth Inflection Points – Personal & Business
January 20, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Jay Messner has built several businesses and helps clients improve theirs. Here we talk about inflection points, causes of failures and reasons for getting stuck, what skills can be taught or developed, vs. having to be recruited, and how to jump through inflections points by creating “trust, clarity, and alignment.” 5:04 – “organizations need to have some sense of stable foundation (operationally, culturally, financially) on which to build, especially in rapid g...
The Magnificent Seven – Growth Lessons in Retail & Life
January 13, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBMany of you know Warren Shoulberg the journalist, writer, editor, consultant, and singular source of home furnishings industry insights via HFN, Forbes.com, and many others. Here, Warren shares his Magnificent Seven of Retail. Important for manufacturers, vendors, and buyers to hear his thoughts the Good, the Bad, or the Ugly of retail (we talk about a couple dozen retailers, like The Good: Target, RH, Amazon, TJX, Williams-Sonoma brands, Magnolia Home in Waco, TX, good independent specialty...
The Magnificent Seven – Growth Lessons in Retail & Life
January 13, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Many of you know Warren Shoulberg the journalist, writer, editor, consultant, and singular source of home furnishings industry insights via HFN, Forbes.com, and many others. Here, Warren shares his Magnificent Seven of Retail. Important for manufacturers, vendors, and buyers to hear his thoughts the Good, the Bad, or the Ugly of retail (we talk about a couple dozen retailers, like The Good: Target, RH, Amazon, TJX, Williams-Sonoma brands, Magnolia Home in Waco, TX, g...
Grow Flexibly, from the Ground Up
January 06, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Growing 10x from the ground up, instead of by edict from the top down, requires a magic combination of strategy, flexibility, authenticity, finding rock stars (and letting them be chess players, not chess pieces), and in Doug Cofiell’s example also well-integrated acquisitions. 6:39 – “you hire for talent, not necessarily for the exact position… as you build a flexible model, it builds off itself and then it gets cultural… they can set their own tone within these...
Grow Flexibly, from the Ground Up
January 06, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBGrowing 10x from the ground up, instead of by edict from the top down, requires a magic combination of strategy, flexibility, authenticity, finding rock stars (and letting them be chess players, not chess pieces), and in Doug Cofiell’s example also well-integrated acquisitions. 6:39 – “you hire for talent, not necessarily for the exact position… as you build a flexible model, it builds off itself and then it gets cultural… they can set their own tone within these guardrails we establish....
Growth and Disaster in the Amazon Jungle
December 30, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Amazon controls nearly 50% of online sales in the USA, with that comes being loved or hated, and often the latter. Jason Boyce has been an Amazon Seller for 17 years, a Top 200 seller (of millions), he shares successes worth emulating, and how to avoid certain failures and “speed bumps” selling on Amazon. He’s the co-author of Amazon Jungle, where he and Rick Cesari share stories of customer-driven innovation, click-through strategies, reaching page 1 on Amazon searc...
Growth and Disaster in the Amazon Jungle
December 30, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBAmazon controls nearly 50% of online sales in the USA, with that comes being loved or hated, and often the latter. Jason Boyce has been an Amazon Seller for 17 years, a Top 200 seller (of millions), he shares successes worth emulating, and how to avoid certain failures and “speed bumps” selling on Amazon. He’s the co-author of Amazon Jungle, where he and Rick Cesari share stories of customer-driven innovation, click-through strategies, reaching page 1 on Amazon search results – with insights...
Digital Transformation – Do or Die?
December 23, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Marvin Dejean removes a bit of mystery around the crucial topic of “digital transformation”, also personal or just “transformation”. We talk about his TIP-squared framework (technology and trends, innovation and insights, people and platforms), how to approach transformation, and avoid pitfalls. 3:36 – “learn to dominate your fear… if you don’t transform willingly… then the market, a competitor, the universe, something is going to force you to do it, or you’re go...
All about pop-up stores
December 16, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBPop-up stores come in all types, and both retailers and manufacturers launch them for different reasons. Andy Bailen has deep experience and “spills the beans” with us in this episode. 2:21 – “All Things Retail (a weekly newsletter) came out of my interest in providing guidance and help and actionable content for retailers (of all sizes).” This conversation about pop-up stores – which Andy has successfully conceptualized and rolled out with big box retailers, and smaller players – serves...
All about pop-up stores
December 16, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Pop-up stores come in all types, and both retailers and manufacturers launch them for different reasons. Andy Bailen has deep experience and “spills the beans” with us in this episode. 2:21 – “All Things Retail (a weekly newsletter) came out of my interest in providing guidance and help and actionable content for retailers (of all sizes).” This conversation about pop-up stores – which Andy has successfully conceptualized and rolled out with big box retailers, and...
Entrepreneur’s Brand: Being the Mac Man, LI Coach, Content Strategist
December 09, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBSend us a Text Message. If a bear roars in the woods and nobody hears him, did it really happen? Brian Burke the Mac Man shares his thoughts on personal branding, his entrepreneurial journey from a dorm room business to running a 20+ employee company that has purchased over $45,000,000 in used Apple equipment, and how he helps others with content strategy, creating a post with over 13,000 likes, SEO, and more. 1:12 – personal branding “helps others to help us, helps us to find clients… if...
Overcoming Transformation Challenges
December 02, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Transportation is a fundamental building block of any economy – so dissecting the necessary ingredients for transforming transportation in the coming decades is key to creating a transportation system that works more efficiently and with less environmental impact. Evangelos Simoudis starts with Data and AI, and has written several books, one about Big Data in our Driverless Future, the other about Transportation Transformation. We talked about three phases of transfo...
Lead from the Core: Jay’s Growth Perspectives
November 25, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Jay Steinfeld, founder of blinds.com (which he grew from $0 to revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars before selling it to Home Depot) shares heartfelt insights from his entrepreneurial journey and personal development in my conversation with him. If you haven’t read his book Lead from the Core, you’ll want to read it. Whether or not you have, you’ll want to listen to this episode in which Jay talks about “autonomous excellence”, the 4 E’s (evolve, experiment, e...
Growth for Good
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Sharon Rowe founded Ecobags, the original reusable bag company, three decades ago, long before sustainability was as cool and certainly as urgent as it is today. She talks about the sometimes-hard choices, sometimes mutually beneficial relationship between conscious capitalism and naked profitability. Sharon authored The Magic of Tiny Business, as a story of doing good and doing well, having your cake, and eating it too. Her company is a small and stable business, so...
Growing in a More Connected World
November 11, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBSend us a Text Message. As co-founder of a now 20-year-old distribution company approaching the 9-figure revenue milestone, Yoram Weinreich opens up to share lessons learned, pivots made, and convictions formed during that growth journey: how it began from a direct import business to online/ecom sales, from less to more branded, no inventory to inventory, from a Canadian workforce with global suppliers to becoming a global workforce, from gut decisions to data-driven decisions – there is a ...
Growth and Self-Awareness
November 04, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBSend us a Text Message. My guest Dr. L. Carol Scott spoke openly about slaying personal dragons, addressing patterns from childhood and her framework for developmental do-overs. I asked Dr. Scott to come on my podcast because I believe most of us limit ourselves, keep ourselves from growing and thriving in some way, due to some preconceived notion that requires introspection, or what she calls self-aware assessment. Dr. Scott's 7-point framework of SASS – Self-Aware Success Strategies – c...
On Staying Relevant to your Customer
October 28, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSend us a Text Message. From ice-cream shopkeeper to executive at Pepsico, expat-CEO for LensCrafter in China, and author of several books, George Minakakis’ journey has been enriched by his curiosity and drive. He shares the reasons behind his mantra to “stay relevant, dismiss nothing, expect the unexpected and plan for the improbable”, and why he loves retail – hint: he loves ambiguity. He talks about technology as the path, and how educating himself on IoT and AI has shaped his upcoming ...
Agility in Digital and other Growth
October 21, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Marisa Lytle has a secret weapon: agility. As VP of Consumer Engagement and Ecom at DEMDACO, she shares not only interesting insights from the world of digital marketing but overriding lessons about the importance of agility. 3:06 – whereas there used to be a clear start and stop with business initiatives “it’s no longer about achieving a set objective at a set point in time, it’s about being agile enough to continue to adapt throughout the journey.” 4:25 – ...
Innovating Inside the Model
October 14, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Innovating and growing a legacy company that has often played inside the conventions of an industry, is different from the proverbial outside disruptor crashing the party. John Toler, who worked his way up to CEO of Evergreen Enterprises, shares his thoughts on innovating inside the model. 5:39 – on personal growth “I’m part of development group YPO… they’re a good sounding board… I’ve done a lot of continuing education, a lot of reading… those outside reference...
Unpack to Grow
October 07, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Joe Motz started with a pickup truck and a dream, then built a 140-person company that builds sports fields for NFL teams across the country. After getting a wakeup call at age 34 that his command and control, hard-charging style was close to killing him, he changed his approach to life, people, and management. In this episode Joe openly talks about unpacking, mindfulness, vulnerability, becoming a listener, allowing coaches (notably at Vistage) to show him new model...
Growing Ahead of the Curve – Retail 4.0
September 30, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Gary Hawkins grew up in the grocery store business in upstate NY (also on a farm, about 30 minutes from my parents’ organic venison farm) and became a trailblazer on retailing for global consumer products companies. He wrote a fascinating white paper on Retail 4.0 – and here he talks us through versions 1.0 thru 4.0, converging technologies, automation of business processes, transforming the lemonade stand into digital networks, and (after 25:34) how to prepare any b...
English Major to Serial Tech Entrepreneur… to Toasters?
September 23, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBSend us a Text Message. Tom Klaff shares his story of growth and learning, allowing us to learn from lessons he picked up building and exiting several businesses, and now building a new rocket ship, a relevant brand on the kitchen counter. 4:01 – “…I was struck by the level of introspection… when did you start articulating your personal building blocks?” – “… it’s like a debrief after the mission, you want to look at things you did right, things you did wrong… after every one of my ven...
Ingredients for Hyper-Growth
September 16, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBSend us a Text Message. When a team goes from $0 at launch to $21M revenue rate in 2½ years, and a few months later (at time of this recording) exceeds a $40M run rate, the term hyper-growth is not hyperbole. Eleanor Lynch is part of the leadership team at Kiaro, a Canadian Cannabis omni-channel business that launched shortly after legalization in 2018: her thoughts on growth, people, strategy, branding, deconstruction and reset are invaluable for anyone grappling with creating or managing ...
Accessing Creative Energy Remotely
September 09, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Richard Degnan is a creative dynamo, building and reinventing big national and global brands. He shares his insights on several companies accessing creative energy, remotely. He distinguishes between working remotely and WFH/working from home, in isolation. 3:45 – “I could be in any number of locations… I love all that stimulus.” 13:53 – “How do we keep the efficiencies we learned (during Covid 19)… and massage it and nuance it to be able to have in-person in...
Accessing Creative Energy Remotely
September 09, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBRichard Degnan is a creative dynamo, building and reinventing big national and global brands. He shares his insights on several companies accessing creative energy, remotely. He distinguishes between working remotely and WFH/working from home, in isolation. 3:45 – “I could be in any number of locations… I love all that stimulus.” 13:53 – “How do we keep the efficiencies we learned (during Covid 19)… and massage it and nuance it to be able to have in-person interactions… what are the ...
So, you Want to Design Products?
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBIf you’re a student of collaboration, of different expertise coming together to learn each other’s language, this episode is for you. If you’re a student of the design process, and how different approaches lead to better outcomes, this episode is for you. Gary Pettitt, CEO Seasonal Living and Laura Muller, Owner of Four Point Design Build talk about the trust, chemistry, containers for chaos that were required to make the Provenance Collection come to life. 5:31 – “Just like a photo capt...
So, you Want to Design Products?
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBSend us a Text Message. If you’re a student of collaboration, of different expertise coming together to learn each other’s language, this episode is for you. If you’re a student of the design process, and how different approaches lead to better outcomes, this episode is for you. Gary Pettitt, CEO Seasonal Living and Laura Muller, Owner of Four Point Design Build talk about the trust, chemistry, containers for chaos that were required to make the Provenance Collection come to life. 5:31 ...
Building your Company for Sellable Growth
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBSend us a Text Message. If you own a small to midsize business that you’re thinking about selling, Bill Goldberg shares a unique investment model. His firm, the W. Alexander Group makes minority investments in companies with $3M to $20M in revenues and helps them to grow to become more valuable. 4:31 – “I really enjoy smaller businesses… B2B service space… the ‘yellow zone’ business that just hadn’t reached their potential yet.” 6:26 – “up to 90% of companies never sell… 70% don’t h...
Future-proof your Company
August 19, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBMaulik Parekh talks about three mega trends in this episode, which he described in his best-selling book “Futureproof Your Career and Company”, and how they will change your company in the near future: 1) AI, 2) a workforce of digital natives, and 3) the gig economy. 3:20 – “when I first came to the Philippines in 2001, there were only some 10,000 people working in the call center industry… today there are 1.3 million people working in call centers.” 4:12 – Maulik’s story about risin...
Future-proof your Company
August 19, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Maulik Parekh talks about three mega trends in this episode, which he described in his best-selling book “Futureproof Your Career and Company”, and how they will change your company in the near future: 1) AI, 2) a workforce of digital natives, and 3) the gig economy. 3:20 – “when I first came to the Philippines in 2001, there were only some 10,000 people working in the call center industry… today there are 1.3 million people working in call centers.” 4:12 – M...
Growing Revenues in a Seller-Free World
August 12, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSend us a Text Message. The internet has changed the sales process, from the seller being contacted 20-30% into the buying process, to now much closer to the end of the process. The internet changed the dynamic and continues to shift it. Zach Murphy talks about how that changed people’s and companies’ behaviors, as buyers and as sellers. 2:08 – “The internet has democratized information.” 3:07 – “creating content on the internet, (today) it’s less production, more authenticity, comp...
Growing Globally Locally, Outside your Comfort Zone
August 05, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Asha Chaudhary, president of Jaipur Living (a socially conscious luxury brand of rugs and textiles), shares the fascinating story of a door-step entrepreneur model of 48,000 artisans in almost 600 villages in India, creating a beautiful product and a seamless customer experience for 1000’s of designers and retailers in the USA. 5:37 – “It’s all about you being courageous, pushing the envelope, the boundaries – a lot of that comes from my dad… he was always a rebe...
Growth Strategies for C-Level Free Agents
July 29, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode is for C-level executives looking for a new angle on job search – Dave Marx provides a unique approach, combining his work as headhunter/recruiter with M&A support, providing job seekers an edge in resume writing, contact strategies with PE companies, and how to market yourself. 2:45 – getting a new job by finding a company for sale: “how about looking at some of the companies that are for sale that (your former employer) passed on and see if you’d l...
Growth Lessons from Pets
July 22, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Let’s face it, sometimes pets are smarter than people. Shawna Schuh is an executive coach, TED Speaker, and self-ascribed pet wrangler. With her refreshingly open demeanor, Shawna shares important lessons she learned from her dog, her horse, and her – yes – goat. 3:21 – “This is your gift as a leader… every challenge holds with it seeds of growth.” 5:15 – “She gave me good advice: no matter what… only talk to her when she does something right… there is alway...
Building a Culture – How, What & What Not
July 15, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBSend us a Text Message. Building a culture without being a cult is both important and difficult. Lance Hart, President of DEMDACO shares his real-world experience in leading a very successful, mid-sized design and distribution company. 3:45 – culture “is the customs and norms for our organization… and our mission and purpose, those phrases are the filter for everything we do.” 4:37 – “there are three things we do: we try to listen… we try to compromise… and to communicate back and ...
Reinvent to Grow – in Fashion, Divorce & other Challenges
July 08, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Making a living selling to retailers, during Covid, while adjusting to a recent divorce, is not for the faint of heart. Natasha Silver, founder of Community Service Showroom, a fashion business in LA talks openly about the business and personal angles of growing in adversity. 3:05 – “Covid was… an opportunity to say ‘you know what I don’t want to do it like that anymore… and people are listening and giving room for it’.” 3:48 – “also, we’re raw… and vulnerabl...
Don’t Blame the Fish – Racism and Growth
July 01, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Calm and rational conversations about racism, and its impact ethically and economically, are hard to come by. I learned a lot from Dora Anim, COO of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, who moved to Ohio from Ghana and France and brings an important voice to the conversation. 2:07 – on Dora’s early journey “I went to college at 16 years old... excited to come to the USA, wanted to learn English… Master’s Degree at 22... my entire life I had to do that… build credib...
Board and Acquisition Tips that Grow Value
June 24, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBSend us a Text Message. As CEO, are you ready to start or improve your board? Prepared to sell your company and maximize value? Mark Greenberg, Co-owner of Silverstone Capital Advisors in Cincinnati since 2009, a senior executive with over 30 years of operating and transaction expertise, offers valuable advice. 7:17 – “if a company has a strong board – advisory or fiduciary – and they’re paying attention it’s usually a good sign, that there is a desire to have some checks and balance, t...
Facing Change – Unfiltered in a Filtered World
June 17, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Because there is no growth without change, Tony Martignetti (Chief Inspiration Officer and host of the Virtual Campfire Podcast) and I talk about different ways to face change. 3:10 – “when you start listening to what’s your soul’s purpose, that’s something that you have to get really quiet to hear… and when you listen, it points you in directions that are really powerful.” 5:02 – “it’s time I need to stop collecting a paycheck and take up space, I need to do some...