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.

Ken Winans is the CEO of Winans International. He recapped January 2011 in the financial markets for us and explained the January Effect.

Peter Goldenn is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed, among others, Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush; Secretaries of State Kissinger, Haig, and Shultz; and Israeli Prime Ministers Shamir, Peres, and Rabin, and Soviet leader Mikhel Gorbochev. Few understand Cold Warriors better than he. We discuss his latest novel Comeback Love, and the cultural changes for women that happened during the Cold War era.

Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Monday, January 31, 201. Listen at www.1400KKZZ.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.

Steve Forbes spoke exclusively to me following his speech to over 1,000 people at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Friday, January 28, 2011.