Change The Game Podcast

On this podcast episode, Taylor St. Germain from ITR Economics joins Jack Stack and Kylie Jackson to discuss the power of using accurate economic data to inform your business decisions, forecast obstacles, and take advantage of opportunities in the future. The Great Game of Business has partnered with ITR Economics to bring you the "Guess the GDP of Q4 2023 Challenge." Here's your chance to showcase your forecasting skills and walk away with a $1000 prize!  Learn more about our forecasting challenge here: https://www.greatgame.com/forecasting-challenge

Dave Scholten, International Business Coach with The Great Game of Business, dives into a difficult subject, layoffs. He discusses with Steve Baker the best way to approach layoffs and how honest communication is the only way to talk with your team.

Corey Rosen, Founder and Senior Staff Member of NCEO, talks about his new book, Ownership, Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What, and discusses what the future of employee ownership looks like. 

Sergio Paiz, CEO of PDC Comercial, discusses how he improved his company and transformed the lives of his workers at the 2022 Conference in Kansas City.

Jason Hynson, Executive Director of Victory Mission, discusses how important HR is when it comes to taking care of the people they serve and the staff who serves those people, mental health and job stability are also big focal points for Victory Mission.

Justin Jordan, President and CEO of Essential Ingredients, and Kris Maynard, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Essential Ingredients, discuss how they use the succession planning process to influence who will participate in the Conference, how they use the Conference to bring up emerging leaders, and what they will be talking about in their breakout session at the Conference this year.

Ari Weinzweig, Co-Founder of Zingerman's Community of Businesses, talks about the natural laws of business, the four elements of visioning, and the recipe for visioning. 

Suranga Herath, Founder and CEO of English Tea Shop, discusses Sri Lanka's most unprecedented economic and social upheaval in its history, and the future of the world's supply chain with social and economic inequalities worldwide. 

Loren Feldman, Editor in Chief and Founder of 21 Hats, warns against falling prey to the doom and gloom predictions, and discusses how smart companies are prepared for the worst but expect the best, and how young people are looking at business differently.

Charlotte Eckley, COO of SRC Logistics, discusses what she looks for when hiring a new candidate, the importance of holding yourself accountable when committing to a new employee, and how to maximize the people you have when you can't afford to bring on new talent. 

Hillary Hughes and Tom DeSimone from Prairie Capital Advisors discuss the cultural aspect of an employee-owned company, using an ESOP to build wealth for your people, and how to position an ESOP as a benefit that attracts employees.

Thanks for tuning into this episode featuring Ryan Markewich. In this episode, Ryan talks on the importance of understanding and bringing value to your niche, and how The Game is not an event, but a journey.

Thanks for tuning in to our first episode of our segment, the Coaches' Table where we bring our Great Game of Business Certified Coaches together for discussions on industry-related hot topics. This episode features coaches, John Williams, Dave Scholten, and Kevin Walter, as they discuss specific challenges their clients in the construction and remodeling industry are facing today. And their recommendations for tackling those issues and preparing for the future with the principles of Great Game.

Thanks for tuning in to this episode of the Change the Game podcast with special guest and Great Game of Business Certified Coach, Anne-Claire Broughton. In this episode, Steve Baker highlights Anne-Claire's work with her international client Chillireeze. She shares about their initiatives to provide financial literacy training, their own signature "Inspire" course on their company values, culture and work ethic, and how they maintain up to 15 impactful MiniGames at once.

In this episode, Steve and Rich are entertained by two ladies of theatre, Beth Domann and Lorianne Dunn, as they discuss tapping the creative energy you already have in the business for solutions to problems, how hiring the right people means you've already done 90% of the work, and by all means Have Fun!

Jackie Greene from ITR economics discusses how to be better prepared, so you are not caught off guard. Why you should ditch the losers and love the difference between disinflation and deflation. 

This episode was recorded at a live roundtable event discussing the benefits and pitfalls of being an ESOP company. It is not required to be an ESOP company to enjoy the benefits of the Great Game of Businesses practice and principles, but they definitely pair well together.    

David Gilliland (Elite Entrepreneurs) discusses how leadership is an exercise in relinquishing control. How three times growth is about having the right team, and the importance of looking ahead to what your company can do when it's doing $1,000/hour work.

John Williams (Great GameTM Coach) and Jim Sliker (CEO of Central States Manufacturing) talk about how strategic planning is a process, not an event, that developing people is as important as strategy, and outline the three-step plan to leadership success.

Jack Stack (SRC Holdings) and Brandon Lockhart (The Great Game of Business) highlight the baby boomer vs millennial perspective on what is competition, teaching people how to win, and how do we handle the loss.

In this episode, Tom DeSimone and Hillary Hughes from Prairie Capital Advisors interview our very own Rich Armstrong on what is an ownership mentality? Is it created or taught? And what is the difference between an ESOP, private, and public company?

In this episode, Art Goldammer and Aaron Tackett from Verity Homes talk about their brand promise and core values, and how breaking methodology creates a more fiscally responsible employee who has a deeper understanding of how every dollar spent impacts the bottom line.

Chuck Monico talks to Rich and Steve about the importance of learning, keeping it simple, and how teaching financial literacy to your team can help them ask better questions and be better team members.

In this episode, Steve Baker looks back on 2021 and highlights some of his favorite podcasts over the last year.

Ellen Rohr, co-founder of the ZOOM DRAIN Franchise, joins the podcast to talk about how to set the stage for learning common mistakes businesses make and how profit and cash will fix everything.

This episode was recorded at a live roundtable event discussing the benefits and pitfalls of being an ESOP company. It is not required to be an ESOP company to enjoy the benefits of the Great Game of Businesses practice and principles, but they definitely pair well together.

In this episode, we step into the mind's eye of Steve Baker as he talks about his 2021 goal to read one book a week, how we turned his car into a classroom, and which of the 88 books he has consumed this year, we'll make it to his 2022 to read it again list.

Michael Kiolbassa, President at Kiolbassa Smoked Meats, describes how unconscious commitments were holding him back, how values-based leadership training put the organization on the right path, and how opening the books magnified the trust in his organization and unleashed creativity.

In this episode, Rich and Steve discuss with Tom DeSimone and Hillary Hughes (Prairie Capital Advisors) ways to transition ownership of a business to the employees, the signs that it might be time to start thinking about transitioning, and when is the best time to start planning.

Liz Wilder, President at Anthony Wilder Design/Build gives a heartfelt talk on inspiring others to build their dreams and weathering the storm during a recession by using every single measure to save every single job.

This week we pull from the vault a moving presentation from Clark Gey. Clarke discusses how fairness and equality are not the same thing, why you should not read entitlements in your company, and the power of purpose.

Casey Hildebrandt, Owner of Hildebrandt Tree Tech, tells Steve how being a Great Game company helped to calm the storm, built his confidence as a leader and allowed him to not carry the entire burden of the business alone.

In this episode, Jack Stack reads chapter 7 from Change The Game. This chapter shares a story of a struggling theatre's turnaround just by opening the books.

Rich Armstrong, President at The Great Game of Business, discusses our Great Game Conference highlighting stories from our All Star companies who used The Game to thrive during the pandemic. How using High-Involvement Planning can help you better position your business for the future, and how Great Game practices can improve the productivity of the workforce to combat the current labor shortage.

Highlighting people in different levels of their ESOP journey. A company owner transitioning into ESOP for the betterment of his people, a retired Employee-Owner, and a current and 2nd generation Employee-Owner.

In recognition of ESOPtober, we pulled from the vault, a recording of Rob Zicaro, former frontline employee at Web industries. Rob is now an ESOP Crusader spreading the word on employee ownership. In this speech at a past Great Game of Business Conference, Rob talked about open-book management through the eyes of an employee owner, and he shared a clip from the 1990s when he addressed President Clinton about ESOP companies.

In this episode Rich and Steve discuss with Mike Keesee, President/CEO at Total Solutions Group, how playing The Great Game of Business has helped his team make it through the last year, what is his win often theory and what he sees for the future of Total Solutions Group. 

Jack Stack discusses how the Great Game of Business' living lab SRC Holdings, is using the Game to help get through the current cycle, what Jack sees as the future for SRC Holdings and trends or concerns we should all be watching out for in 2022.

Alan Beaulieu joins Steve and Rich to talk about how surviving the war on talent means having a sticky culture, why we are seeing an inflation that is heading to a recession, followed by a depression, and how you can move your allocations to inflation adjusted assets to weather the storm.

Steve Jones, CEO at Jenner Ag, shares how having a model of Working Together as One and having employees that know the numbers of the business have helped propel their business through every roadmap in their way.

Darein Gandall joins to talk about how Cisco-Eagle is careful not to be money drunk, why huddles are so important to their team, and how Minigames have helped to get them through the pandemic.

Jack Stack joins Rich and Steve to talk about what you can expect at The 29th Annual Great Game of Business Conference, including Jack's secrets on how he has been able to predict and overcome the last three recessions.

Podcast guest, Tim Rettig, talks about why he is so passionate about making work fun for everyone and why he's signed a pledge along with 50 other Cincinnati businesses, vowing to not lay off any employees due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This episode was recorded at a live roundtable event with 3 Great Game of Business practitioners sharing their different stories of being an ESOP. 

Howard Partridge reveals how his relationship with Zig Ziglar changed his mind set and business. Howard will also tell you the number one thing a small business owner can take away from his years of experience as a Zig Ziglar legacy trainer.

In this episode, Stephan discusses his "Work to Play the Teton Way" employment brand, how we implemented raising wages for all employees across the board, and how he developed a strategy that named The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole an employer of choice. 

Peter Reeburgh, Owner/CEO of Summit Cove Lodging, gives insight on how investing in the hiring process, taking care of each other in the workplace, and hiring people who are a good cultural fit will allow him to eventually work himself out of a job.

Steve Storkan, Executive Director at EOX, outlines what it means to be an employee owned company, and what an EOX State Center can do for owners considering employee ownership.

Jeff Evenson joins the podcast to discuss how the book, The Opposite of Spoiled, influenced him in his business journey, and his belief that with the right leadership and vulnerability, you can make the great game of business work anywhere.

Royce George, an accomplished global business leader, joins the podcast to talk about capitalism and the core values of leadership.

Podcast guest Tonia Morris talks about diversity, inclusion and belonging, reimagining the workforce, and attracting new talent.