Mark Aesch is a model bureaucrat. He eradicated multi-million dollar deficits at the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) and replaced them with surpluses. We discuss the lessons he teaches about business, and life, in his book Driving Excellence:Transform Your Organization’s Culture And Achieve Revolutionary Results.
Douglas Rushkoff had a revelation about modern life after being mugged. He discovered that business—and corporations—are the dominant facts of contemporary life. We discuss what’s so terrible about life is becoming more business-like from his latest book, Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Ginny Clarke is a former partner at Spencer Stuart, one of the world’s largest senior-level executive search firms. She pursued her own career dreams by founding her own business. She’s written Career Mapping: Finding Your Dream Job—a guide for finding your dream job straight out of college or for making a career move. We discuss using one’s own GPS to find the job of a lifetime.
Bill Booher is Executive Vice-President of The Council on Competitiveness, a non-partisan and non-governmental organization that works with CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders to ensure U.S. prosperity. We discuss what it will take to keep the United States competitive in the world marketplace.
Dr. Henry Chesborough is a business school professor at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley. He tells us how to keep US companies competitive in the global economy by delivering improved choices for customers and better economics for corporations from his latest book, Open Services Innovation.
Nanci Appleman-Vassil is the leader of APLS Group—a training, consulting, and recruiting firm that specializes in organizational effectiveness. We discuss the 18 Common Mistakes Small Business Owners make.