Small Business Hour

Rick Bowers is the president of TTI Success Insights, a leading firm in the field of employee assessment for over 30 years. Listen in as he discusses why you should assess your employees and teams, how to do it successfully, and what to do with the information you gain from the process. To learn more,...

Family business founders and senior leaders must understand that millennial successors typically embrace freedom above all else. They want to be free to do things “their way.” They have a different view of how their work and their personal world fit together. This often is in stark contrast with the values of post war and baby boomer...

Having the right experience, work history and job knowledge does not necessarily define the best job candidates. Even if they DON’T have the best experience or work history but possess the right attitudes, behaviors and discipline they are often open to learn all they need to know very quickly. In short hiring success is not based upon WHAT candidates know but...

How do we keep the “family” separate from the “business” in a family business? Let’s face it what happens in a family usually finds its way into the business. Regardless of whether these are enduring, edifying values or embarrassing, unshakable dysfunctions, the business must navigate the culture of the family to secure a foothold in the marketplace...

Typical motivation just doesn’t work. We can’t get anyone to do something which they don’t want to do. Science has proven over and over again that motivational tools, like; incentives and rewards, in most cases, don’t produce better results. In fact most of these studies show that the higher the reward, the worse the performance....

Listen to this classic interview with the late Zig Ziglar, author of the books: Over the Top, How to Get What You Want, Top Performance, Sell Your Way to the Top, and many more. We discussed how to move from stability to success to significance. Find out how you can make Zig’s philosophy, “You can have anything you want...

On today’s show, we’re joined by three guests- noted business expert Harvey Mackay, Chris Gunn from the American Small Business League, and David Meadows from the US Center for Entrepreneurship. Harvey will discuss his new book, Use Your Head to get Your Foot in the Door and how it relates to small businesses. Harvey’s books...

Listen to our interview with Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup For The Soul series of books. We discuss “The Power of Focus”, Jack’s method that allows you to double your income and double your time off in two years.

Noted business author Harry Beckwith comes on the show to discuss his new book Unthinking. We also discuss Jeffrey Immelt’s influence on the Obama administration, the latest Discover Small Business Survey, and some ways to enact Breakthrough Innovation in your business.

Listen is as we talk with Howard Behar, former president of Starbucks International about how he was able to achieve such dramatic growth.

Tom Hopkins is a sales legend. Many believe that natural ability is enough to make you successful in a selling career. The truth of the matter is that natural skill, combined with “how to” training is the real secret to high level productivity. Having learned this lesson the hard way, Tom is quick to admit...