Improv-ing Business

FINAL EPISODE! CHECK OUT OUR NEW MULTIMEDIA PODCAST, "RAMBLING BUSINESS" COMING AUGUST 2016! Are you looking to start a business? Or, do you currently own a business that seems to be jumping at any opportunity to succeed? Today Rick and Brandon talk about the creation of Google and how their historic rise to fame can help you in your small and mid-sized business. They’ll be tapping some ideas from a McKinsey & Company video, A digital-strategy framework, How to make sense of digital disruption by Angus Dawson and Chris Bradley.

Now that you planned your vacation, what next? Last week Brandon and Rick talked about how to plan your vacation finances, but all the plans may go south if you don’t implement them. Join them as they talk about how to stay on budget and still enjoy your vacation.

It’s vacation planning time! We’ve talked about Airbnb scams, but now we’ll touch on how to financially plan a vacation and not ruin it. We’ll be talking about one of the greatest planned travel experiences, the 1947 Kon-Titi raft trip by Thor Heyerdal from Peru to Polynesia.

Did you ever wonder how some individuals are so successful that they actually change the world? Are you trying to change your world by starting a new business? Today we talk about combing strategy and entrepreneurship, the dynamic duo of business success. We’ll be pulling a little information from Lean Strategy by David Collins. Harvard Business Review, March 2016.

Have you booked a vacation on Orbitz? Did you ever wonder how that easy-to-use business got off the ground? Rick and Brandon talk about a few quick strategies using this amazing company that may help you get that dream business off the ground. They use some ideas from an article, How to Hedge Your Strategic Bets by George Stalk Jr. and Ashish Iyer in the May 2016 Harvard Business Review.

Are you thinking of booking a rental for vacation through Air BNB or other online services? Are you a little uneasy about sending your money and wondering if a rental will be waiting for you when you arrive? Many unfortunately have lost a lot of money. Today, Brandon and Rick give you some tips on how to protect yourself when booking that dream vacation

Do you feel like you have to be “anywhere” and “everywhere”? Today’s “always on” work culture is taking a heavy toll on today’s leaders. How is this constant anxiety affecting your co-workers? Today Rick and Brandon give some quick pointers on how you can reverse this trend using Winston Churchill’s example of how to balance a life.