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Special Considerations for Landlords - 2020 Premises Liability Webinar Series
Secrest Wardle Podcast - July 09, 2020 13:46 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis webinar has been revised for 2020, providing an update focusing on issues that may arise for residential landlords. This episode features a detailed discussion pertaining to possession and control, why ownership and title are not dispositive, liability under the Landlord Tenant Act, as well...
Open and Obvious Defense – 2020 Premises Liability Webinar Series
Secrest Wardle Podcast - July 01, 2020 18:46 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe first installment in Secrest Wardle's 2020 Premises Liability Webinar series discussing open and obvious defense strategies. Hosted by: Thomas J. Azoni Senior Partner Secrest Wardle, Troy If you are not already on our distribution list, to receive invitations to register for the Premi...
TNI - Exceptionally Normal
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - January 09, 2020 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt is normal that no two people are exactly alike. Not even twins. So the word normal should not be confused with the word average. If you leave your fingerprints on something, you might as well leave your name and address since no two people have the same prints. You hear music and see a sun...
Great Leaders Keep Cool Under Fire
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - December 12, 2019 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy grandfather had an old saying when I was growing up, “Never burn a bridge." At the time, I thought it was a strange saying. It was only later that I realized what he was saying. No matter how someone treats you, don't get angry and never retaliate as to destroy the relationship. Great leaders...
Provider Standing Revisited: W.A. Foote v MAIPF and Shah v State Farm
Secrest Wardle Podcast - November 04, 2019 17:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpecial breaking news episode discussing the Michigan No-Fault reform. Hosted by Renee T. Townsend Executive Partner Secrest Wardle, Troy Drew W. Broaddus Partner Secrest Wardle, Grand Rapids
Find A Way To Say 'Yes' To Non-Obvious Ideas
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - September 12, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe world is made up of ‘yes’ people and ‘no’ people. We need more optimistic -- more hopeful people who find a way to say yes to non-obvious ideas. During Thomas Jefferson's presidency in the early 1800’s, he and a group of travelers were crossing a river that had overflowed its banks. Each m...
Avoiding the Habit Trap
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - July 04, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen I was growing up, one time my grandmother baked a fantastic German Chocolate cake. I can see it now -- that moist chocolate cake and rich icing. It was great and everyone in the family let her know how great it was. We devoured the cake. But from that time on, we could count on a German Cho...
Innovation Attitude is Innovation Success
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - June 27, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI find it interesting that we usually get from other people exactly what we expect of them. If we are looking for friendship, we will likely receive it. If our attitude is that of indifference, we will get indifference. And if we are looking for a fight, we will in all likelihood find ourselves ...
Innovation Requires Getting the Facts Right
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - June 20, 2019 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is an old saying that goes something like this, “Speaking with passion but without the facts is like making a beautiful dive into an empty pool.” As John Adam’s famously said, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,...
Change Caused by Innovation
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - June 13, 2019 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs a result of some digital spring cleaning I was doing, I found and was listening to old shows from 2005 - the first year of my podcast. Honestly, given what I know now, I wish could have re-written and re-recorded them. The technology and tools now available to podcasters are far superior to w...
Innovation Quality is a Virtue
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - June 06, 2019 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI was looking through some of my old idea notebooks and came across a quote that I wrote down. It is one of those quotes that cause you to pause and contemplate. To question your own personal motivations. The quote? “Institutions, like vineyards, should be judged by the quality of their vintag...
Ageism and Innovation
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - May 30, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSome have put forth what I believe is a false premise -- that creativity and innovation are for the young. Silicon Valley has clearly bought into this premise. If you are over 40, some could rightly argue 35, many of the companies in the valley have taken the position that you are over the hill....
Sweeping Changes to No-Fault Act: A Discussion on Impact to Insurers
Secrest Wardle Podcast - May 29, 2019 13:50 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpecial breaking news episode discussing the Michigan No-Fault reform. Hosted by Nathan J. Edmonds Senior Partner Secrest Wardle, Troy Renee T. Townsend Executive Partner Secrest Wardle, Troy
Innovation Communities
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - May 23, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI’m not sure who said it first but I’ll give credit to Tony Robbins for the now famous quote -- “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” With a slight tweak, you can apply this quote to networks, communities, tribes, and friends you socialize with. If you changed t...
Time Management
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - May 16, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs it says in Psalm 90:10, we are allotted threescore and ten years to do with as we please. Of that, we will spend the equivalent of twenty-three years and four months of it asleep. We will work nineteen years eight months practicing our religion and ten years and two months in recreation. We w...
So Your Idea Was Rejected
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - May 09, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingYour idea was rejected. Criticized. Dumped on. You were told to give up. I have yet to find anyone who likes to have their ideas rejected. But if you want to succeed in innovation, you have to put yourself and your ideas out there which means you will get rejected. You have no other choice. Th...
Innovating Using The Daffodil Principal
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - May 02, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWant to know the secret to take ideas and make them real innovations? It is what I call the “daffodil principle” which I learned/stole from an article published by Jaroldeen Edwards. In one of the small mountain communities in the Sierra foothills, there is a church. If you take the time to pu...
Everything I Learned About Ethics I learned in Boy Scouts
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - April 18, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTwelve words. Millions of 11-year-old boys, and now young girls, learn it when they join Boy Scouts. It was something that I had to memorize in order to earn my first step along the way to my Eagle Scout medal. Each weekly meeting started with everyone saying them aloud. We were expected to fo...
What is Your Creative Inspiration?
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - April 11, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI really enjoy getting behind this microphone. It is my personal creative outlet that is separate from the day job. What was it that got me to start back in 2005? Like all things, I got inspired. My inspiration was when my mentor, Bob Davis, lent me my first self-help set of cassette tapes cre...
Should You Use A Data Driven Approach
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - April 04, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe inspiration for innovation takes all forms. For some its music. For others its art. And for others its data. When I was CTO, Mark Hurd, the CEO at HP at the time, had a quote that was ingrained into everything the executive team did. “If you stare at the numbers long enough, they will ev...
What They Could Become
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - March 28, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGreat leaders - in business, government or society, know that when it comes to others, there is always more than meets the eye. Earl Nightingale once shared a story that reminds us to look beyond what we think is obvious. It seems that the NBC orchestra was about to be formed, David Sarnoff,...
Just Do It!
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - March 21, 2019 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAny writer, syndicated cartoonist, innovator or perhaps a podcast host; sooner or later will run into what some would call writers' block. They find themselves drawing a blank. They have a deadline rapidly approaching and they find themselves with nothing -- not a single good idea. Writers...
Be Brave To Innovate
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - March 11, 2019 05:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDid you know the opposite of bravery is not cowardice? The opposite of bravery is conformity. Doing everything the same way that everybody else does it, being like everybody else, thinking the same way everybody else does. Conformity is the “safe” approach which actually puts us at more risk. ...
Innovate with Fresh Eyes
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - March 04, 2019 06:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI’ve been in the innovation game for more than 30 years. Hard to believe. With that many years comes loads of experience but also some downsides. As with most things, when you’ve done something for a long time, you tend to fall into a pattern - a rut. You use your experience to recognize a pat...
What Products Could I Create Out of Unused Assets
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - November 05, 2018 06:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI’m an innovation guy. It may not say so on my business card, but that’s what I do. I encourage people, whether inside HP or in my meetings with customers around the world, to accept that they and their product are going to have to change. No matter how popular and successful yo...
What product or service to stay ahead
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - October 22, 2018 05:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn October 4, 1957, Russia launched a beach-ball-sized satellite named Sputnik, which orbited the Earth in just over ninety-six minutes. The previous frontrunner in the space race, the United States, was now the runner up. Our only competitor had trounced us, seemingly out of nowhere. A month la...
Until the Wheels Fall Off - Motorcycles and No-Fault
Secrest Wardle Podcast - October 15, 2018 17:13 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpecial episode discussing the following topics pertaining to motorcycles in Michigan: Minimum insurance requirements Priority for PIP coverage Third-party claims 2012 Motorcycle Helmet Law Claims handling Recent clarification of case law issues by the Michigan Court of Appeals Ho...
Who is passionate about my product
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - October 15, 2018 05:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI’ve never shopped at the online craft marketplace Etsy.com or even any of its competitors. Not an area of interest for me as I’m not often in the market for hand-knitted iPod cozies, customized guitar cables, or the like. As for my wife and daughters – they are big fans and very loyal and...
What is surprisingly inconvenient about my product
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - October 08, 2018 05:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat is surprisingly inconvenient about my product? The designers and engineers who work at HP face many challenges in getting their ideas signed off on. It’s a long process from an idea to a finished prototype. Before any product can hit the market, it faces one final test. ...
How Can My Product Change in 5 Years
5 Minutes To New Ideas With Phil McKinney - October 01, 2018 05:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDo you sell atoms or bytes? Do you think that your answer could change over the next five years? Think about Amazon and the Kindle. Jeff Bezos asked, What is my role going to be if the nature of books changes? He realized that to stay relevant and necessary his company needed to retai...
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