Podcast appearances and mentions of doug tatum

Doug is Chairman of Newport LLC, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and assist private equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. He is also a member of the Teaching Faculty at the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship at Florida State and also Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium at the University of Wisconsin – Extension.  Its mission is to study exceptional growth companies, the capital markets, and overall business activity to learn more about their impact on employment and economic growth. He is the Former Chairman of the Board for the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), a global not-for-profit organization with 58 Chapters and 14,000 members in the US and internationally, representing middle market private capital investors, intermediaries and the middle market deal community.  In 2017 he was given ACG's Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization's Intergrowth 2017 conference in Las Vegas, recognizing his dedication to ACG and the middle market community in the U.S. and around the world. Previously, Doug was Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC, which grew into a highly respected national professional services firm with 30 offices and over 1000 professionals and employees.  The company was sold to Spherion in 2010. Doug is the Managing Director of TIP Seed Fund LLC, a newly formed seed stage VC fund with investments and investment rights in a diversified portfolio of companies with unique and proprietary products in the consumer, high-tech, and nutraceutical to pharmaceutical marketplaces. Doug is the author of No Man's Land: Where Growing Companies Fail, a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into several languages and has won four National Best Business book awards.  His insights about the economy and business have been cited in hundreds of media outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, and The New York Times online.

In episode 5, we give the hosting reins to Gregory Paolini, founder of Gregory Paolini Design and secretary of the board for the Cabinet Makers Association. He chats with Doug Tatum, chairman of Newport LLC and speaker at CMA's National Conference, about how to succeed in business, making the decision to remain a "small giant" in business or scale, managing overall growth of your shop, and teaching valuable employees how to run the business without you. 

While growing, businesses reach a point where they are too big to be small but too small to be big. This place is called No Man's Land. In this episode, Mark Dorman speaks with Doug Tatum, Chairman of Newport LLC and the author of No Man's Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. Doug explains how the … Read More Read More

“There is no more complex strategy game in the world that I know of than building companies,” says Michael Zuerchner, CEO and Co-Founder of Prismatic. He would know. At age 19, he started a software company whose product integrated 600 tasks to be used in all aspects of law enforcement, such as jail door systems to alarm systems for putting dots on maps when 911 calls were made. It started as a summer job getting his hometown's law office records software up to date, and then he and a friend bootstrapped that software into a fully-fledged business. It became unsustainable once they scaled. After leaving the company, the two started Prismatic to solve the problems they encountered in the first place. Michael explains that integration platforms have been historically focused on integrating the things the company uses together, taking all the things that are in their ecosystem and making the data flow well among them. Prismatic offers a complete iPaaS, or integration Platform as a Service, solution for your whole organization to make everything run more smoothly and at optimum potential.  In this episode, Michael discusses the unique challenges of running a sophomore company and the problem with overestimating your experience and underestimating the variables of starting a company.  Quotes: “At the end of the day you're going to have to do what is going to serve your target market the best. (4:32-4:37 | Michael) “We're all obviously end users of B2B software in some form or fashion, and wouldn't we all like it if there was just one end-all answer that was the magic solution and we didn't have to deal with all of this? If that could exist that would be amazing. I think the hard thing, of course, is building that one true thing that meets the demand of enough of the market.” (9:21-9:40 | Michael) “I don't know very many people who were successful who didn't love the game so much that they wanted to go right back into it.” (16:30-16:39 | Michael) “For all the people that are out there grinding right now, the beach is not all it's cracked up to be, just sitting around doing nothing. It's nice to have freedom, one hundred percent. However, go do nothing for a month; it gets tiring really quickly.” (17:14-17:34 | Brendan) “There is a fundamentally different problem if you are a sophomore company. I don't need to integrate together the things that I use—or maybe I do, but that's a separate thing. I need to connect the product I sell to the other products my costumers use.” (19:52-20:07 | Michael) One of the challenges in our market, and something that I think we do well, is doing a good job for both of those personals. I think we have a solution that speaks very well to product folks and the problems they have, and a product that's very friendly to developers without turning off the rest of the organization. And I think that's a fine line to walk.” (32:28-32:50 | Michael)  Connect with Brendan Dell: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendandell/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendanDell Instagram: @thebrendandellTikTok: @brendandell39 Buy a copy of Brendan's Book, The 12 Immutable Laws of High-Impact Messaging: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780578210926  Connect with Michael Zuercher:Website: http://prismatic.io/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-zuercher/ Check out Michael Zuercher's recommended books:• No Man's Land: Where Growing Companies Fail by Doug Tatum: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781591842491 Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business by Matt Blumbert: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781119723660 • The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably  by Thomas Nagle and Reed Holden: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-strategy-and-tactics-of-pricing-a-guide-to-growing-more-profitably_thomas-t-nagle/272437/?resultid=b8ecc8a1-c660-4d32-8904-d6ccb162d545#edition=19123891&idiq=53411030  Please don't forget to rate, comment, and subscribe to Billion Dollar Tech on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts! Use code Brendan30 for 30% off your annual membership with RiverSide.fm  Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

In this episode, Byron and Mary discuss: Common early plateaus in small businesses. Mary’s story of House of Revenue and building her own company to help build other companies.Overcoming our perception of how we are “supposed” to build and run a company. Advice to someone finding themselves in a downturn situation. Key Takeaways: There is a huge shift that CEOs have to make mentally to be set for scale. Sacrifice is okay as long as there is something to show for it. There is a gift in needing to turnaround your company. You need to first define what you want. Disruptions in our lives are an opportunity to make a choice and say “yes” to something you can’t see right now.  "I needed to identify the biggest stresses and triggers and what caused those fires that made me a professional firefighter. I had to identify what were all the things that were wrong before and how to rebuild it so we never have to have those again." —  Mary Grothe  Book Reference: No Man’s Land by Doug Tatum - amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Growing-Companies/dp/1591842492 Connect with Mary Grothe:    Website: HouseofRevenue.com  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marygrotheTwitter: twitter.com/MaryLGrothe Instagram: instagram.com/marygrothe Connect with Byron Walker: Website: TheTurnaroundPlan.comEmail: Byron@SurvivalFrog.comLinkedIn: Byron Walker

As a business grows, the ability to do things more efficiently is key to scaling up successfully. But oftentimes, the plan to automate processes gets little priority. When is the right time to adopt technology to get rid of those manual processes? And how do you go about updating your internal infrastructure? These are just some of the questions we cover today as process consultant Andrew Millet joins me today to help founders who may have found themselves stuck and in need of ways to streamline their process to meet buyer preferences, improve the customer experience, and improve retention and profitability. Jump into this episode to grab valuable insights on process and automation.   We’ll talk about: Andrew’s background and the start of Process Pro Consulting [01:19] What led them to the B2B space [02:12] The reason for automating your processes [04:33] Setting up your infrastructure to scale [10:56] Don’t forget onboarding and organization of process after technology adoption [16:19] Successful technology implementations are aligned with your goals [20:17] Don’t just sell then forget about the customer [24:37] The handoff process is miserable for the customer [29:32] Make sure the data follows the customer [33:33] How a business delivers customer value is different for every company [35:36] Find the things that are taking a lot of time then try to automate it [39:25] When’s the right time to be thinking about efficiency and automation [43:15] What Andrew plans to focus on this 2021 [45:20] The one thing that Andrew recommends [47:04]   Resource Links: Brett Trainor Website (https://bretttrainor.com/) Download The Growth Readiness Checklist (https://bretttrainor.com/resources/) Process Pro Consulting Website (https://processproconsulting.com/) No Man's Land: Where Growing Companies Fail by Doug Tatum (https://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Growing-Companies/dp/1591842492)   About Our Guest: Andrew is the Founder and Principal Adviser at Process Pro Consulting. As a process-oriented consultant with a passion for growing businesses, he has spent the beginning of his career providing services to Fortune 500 companies.  He later became the Director of Solutions & Customer Experience ScaleFactor, where he helped accelerate the startup’s growth from seed investment through multiple funding rounds. Now through his own company, he dedicated to helping businesses succeed through the optimization of their processes. You can connect with Andrew through his LinkedIn or just send him an email at andrew@processproconsulting.com. If you liked this episode, please don’t forget to tune in, subscribe, and share this podcast.  Connect with B2B Founder:  Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySoKsETeKxu-Fnf2VfE7Gg/

Welcome to Episode 338 of the EcomCrew podcast! Today, Dave and I are doing something new. We’re not just gonna be talking about ecommerce. We’re also gonna dive into the business books that shaped us into the people we are today. These books were highly influential especially as to how we handle our teams and operate our businesses in general. We talk about some highlights of the books and how we implemented what we learned into running our brands. Timestamps:  Mike’s new reading routine - 3:15 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - 7:00 Book No. 1:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey - 10:03 Highlights of Book 1 - 12:04 Book No. 2: The One Thing by Gary Keller - 14:14 How Dave implemented the ideas from Book No. 2 for EcomCrew - 17:15 Bonus Book: Who Moved My Cheese? By Spencer Johnson - 19:00 Book No. 3:The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John Maxwell - 20:10 Mike’s experience with employment - 22:47 The fear of losing one’s job - 24:48 Book No. 4: No Man’s Land by Doug Tatum - 26:24 Big vs. small companies - 28:40 Book No. 5: Traction by Gino Wickman - 35:28 Book No. 6: Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger - 39:34 Bonus Book: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Dave’s most overrated book: Traction - 39:38 Mike’s defense for Traction - 41:30 Mike’s most overrated book: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris - 45:14 If you loved this episode, listen to E175 of the podcast to get to know more about Mike and how he started his ecommerce journey. For those of you who are still on the fence about availing of our paid services, now’s the time to take the leap! EcomCrew Premium is reopening on Black Friday, and we have a very special promotion for you! This will be the last time in 2020 that Premium will reopen, and because of the spirit of the holiday, we’re giving a special offer to those who will sign up. Be a Crewmate today! Speaking of special offers, our friends over at Captain AMZ has one for EcomCrew podcast listeners. If you’re an Amazon seller, you know how important good reviews are for your business. Captain AMZ can help you automatically request reviews and feedback and track all of them in one place. Just head on over to captainamz.com and use the code ecomcrew10 or go to ecomcrew.com/captamz to get 10% off from their services. If you liked this episode, show us your love by leaving us a review over on iTunes. Until the next one. Happy selling!

On this week’s episode we review No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail by Doug Tatum. We talk about the four M’s featured in the book; Market, Management, Money, and Model. We also discuss how culture can help teams get through rough or slow patches, driving forward motion.

In this episode, Keith Schroeder, CEO of High Road Craft Brands, talks to our host, Cameron Albert-Deitch, about his Book Smart pick, No Man's Land by Doug Tatum. 

Doug Tatum is a Professor at Florida State University and a student of business. He’s an expert, specifically, in the area of scaling small businesses through a challenging period termed “No Man’s Land,” during which a leader can do what appears right and still see their business fail. In this presentation from Tugboat Institute Summit 2019, Doug shares insights into how Evergreen leaders can strategize to successfully navigate this potentially treacherous period—and emerge to thrive.

NFL Network's Stacey Dales joins the show to give some insight on the Minnesota Vikings. Doug Tatum previews tonight's premiere of "Walking Together Forever" a seven-part series on the Saints 2009 Super Bowl XLIV team. Episode One airs tonight at 8 p.m. CT.

Doug Tatum is a startup legend and the author of No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. (You can get the book from Amazon) Here's where you can find Doug: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougtatum/ https://www.newportboardgroup.com/  

This week on “In Process: Conversations about Business in the 21st Century,” we reach the final podcast in our series dedicated to the topic of preparing your business for sale. There's a “new normal” in the marketplace. Too much money, chasing too few deals. We’re also now seeing a fairly dramatic reduction in the number of companies above 100 employees. That shrinkage, if you will, accounts for a lot of the competitiveness. And, the impact on the market? It's driving the capital downstream. In the final installment of our six-part podcast series, show hosts Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon speak with Doug Tatum, chairman of Newport Board Group, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle-market companies and assist private-equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. Doug is also the author of “No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail,” a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into several languages and has won four National Best Business book awards.  During the course of the podcast, entrepreneurs, business owners and C-level executives will learn about the: Concept of fractional C-level officers Succession planning process Best practices for selecting a successor Lessons-learned from the sales process Qualities you should look for in a purchaser Did you enjoy the podcast? Please give us a review and share the episode with anyone you know who would benefit.

Ron and Beth Decker are veteran kingdom business leaders whose answers drip with wisdom for any kingdom pioneer. From thoughts on integrity to stories of hearing God in the midst of a unforeseen disaster during a business deal, the Deckers offer powerful and practical encouragement for all. Please consider leaving us a rating and review to help others hear about us and get equipped.  Resources for cultivating kingdom business recommended by the Deckers:  * Good to Great by Jim Collins,  * No Man's Land by Doug Tatum,  * The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber,  * The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni 

Join Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon of Trusted Counsel with their guest expert, Doug Tatum, Newport Board Group Chairman of the Board as they discuss the challenges often faced by companies transitioning from small to big. Doug discusses the navigational rules these companies need in his book No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. Purchase this book at Amazon.   Join us for a fast-paced conversation about the common issues faced by companies as they go through growth transitions!

At a certain point in the lifecycle of every business, there comes an awkward phase of organizational development where the complexity of a business is overcoming its team's capabilities as leaders and the systems they created. Too big to be small, and too small to be big, this wilderness phase is what Doug Tatum's bestseller refers to as “No Man's Land,” a critical transitional stage in the metamorphosis of a growing company. And just as every teenager thinks they're the only one struggling with fear, doubt, and the pressure to grow up faster, so every business owner needs to understand that this phase is normal and in fact manageable. A serial entrepreneur and 20 year member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, we are excited to welcome back Rich Manders to discuss how leaders can identify that their business is at this pivotal point, where complexity is growing at an exponential rate, and more importantly, how to overcome the transition.

613-07.27.2016New Orleans Pelicans & SaintsOnline radio show focused on Pelicans and Saints news.Today's lineup presented by ABC Insurance Agencies includes new Pelican Solomon Hill, Pelicans/Saints executive director of digital media Doug Tatum (talking Saints Insider) and former Saint Scott Fujita (talking Gleason movie). 41:58

At a certain point in the lifecycle of every business, there comes an awkward phase of organizational development where the complexity of a business is overcoming its team's capabilities as leaders and the systems they created. Too big to be small, and too small to be big, this wilderness phase is what Doug Tatum's bestseller refers to as “No Man's Land,” a critical transitional stage in the metamorphosis of a growing company. And just as every teenager thinks they're the only one struggling with fear, doubt, and the pressure to grow up faster, so every business owner needs to understand that this phase is normal and in fact manageable. A serial entrepreneur and 20 year member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, we are excited to welcome back Rich Manders to discuss how leaders can identify that their business is at this pivotal point, where complexity is growing at an exponential rate, and more importantly, how to overcome the transition.

Join Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon of Trusted Counsel with their guest expert, Doug Tatum, Newport Board Group Chairman of the Board as they discuss the challenges often faced by companies transitioning from small to big. Doug discusses the navigational rules these companies need in his book No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. Purchase this book at Amazon. Join us for a fast-paced conversation about the common issues faced by companies as they go through growth transitions!

314-11.07.2014New Orleans Pelicans & SaintsOnline radio show focused on Pelicans and Saints news.Today's special guests include Jimmy Johnson, Fox boradcaster and former Super Bowl winning coach, Marc Stein of ESPN.com, Pelicans Coach Monty Williams and Quest for the Cost presented by Chevron game launch with Doug Tatum, Sakari Morrison (General Manager of Public Affairs, Chevron Gulf of Mexico), and Brenda Walkenhorst (Director of Education Projects of Audubon Nature Institute.59

A recent hearing in Raleigh brought legislators up to date on plans to repay the state's unemployment insurance debt. Sen. Bob Rucho talks about why lawmakers pushed for this plan & how it will help employers. A cooking school in Charlotte offers participants a unique edge to a new career. And author & business leader Doug Tatum talks about sustainable job creation & growth.

A recent hearing in Raleigh brought legislators up to date on plans to repay the state's unemployment insurance debt. Sen. Bob Rucho talks about why lawmakers pushed for this plan & how it will help employers. A cooking school in Charlotte offers participants a unique edge to a new career. And author & business leader Doug Tatum talks about sustainable job creation & growth.

Daron and Brandy talk to Doug Tatum, co-founder of Tatum LLC, an Atlanta-based consulting firm, about his new book entitled No Man's Land. Doug explains that running a successful company can be a thrill. But for many CEOs, there's a point at which it becomes no fun at all.