by Mark Crowley | Feb 24, 2023 | Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen Bob Chapman was thirty years old, his father died of a sudden heart attack – instantly making Bob CEO of a small, unprofitable manufacturing company his dad had only recently purchased. For the next two decades,...
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 9, 2022 | Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBeing a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake – and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the...
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 3, 2021 | Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMicrosoft founder Bill Gates recently said that every leader in the world must read “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion and the Fall of General Electric.” Written by two masterful Wall Street Journal reporters, Tom Gryta...
by Mark C. Crowley | Apr 10, 2020 | Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSNow Is The Time To Make Employees As Important As Shareholders: For decades, businesses have deferred to the interests of shareholders above and beyond the interests of all other stakeholders – most especially...
by Mark C. Crowley | Feb 21, 2020 | Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAt 32 years old, Doug Conant was fired from his job as Marketing Director for Parker Brothers Toy and Game Company – and he never saw it coming. Stunned, hurt, indignant, angry and humiliated, Conant nevertheless...