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Corporate Culture, Part 1 – in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chatman
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Chatman-Part-1.mp3Part one for three in a series where Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO chats with Professor Jennifer Chatman, a...
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Make Points, Not Enemies
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-MakingPointsNotEnemies01.mp3Unskilled communicators can create a breakdown in conversation at every turn, sometimes making enemies in the process. In this...
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Setting Business Goals
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-SettingAchievingGoals01.mp3If Tough Things First stands for one thing, it’s setting and achieving goals even when they are difficult. In...
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Managing Conflicts
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-CorePrinciples01.mp3In business and in life there are conflicts. Some of those are internal but threaten the external when we...
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Three Innovation Engines
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How you innovate depends on what you are innovating. A lot of startups hate hearing that. They have the...
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Bad Decisions, Good Outcomes
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-BadDecisions01_01.mp3Entrepreneurs are bound to make bad decisions, but it’s how they handle them that is the difference between success...
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Managing Debt and Corporate Growth
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Guy-ManagingDebtGrowth01a.mp3When should a company take on debt to enable growth? Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO has some answers. Guy...
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Surviving a Downturn – Three Tough Things series
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/TTF-series-RayGuy-SurviveDownturn01.mp3What should a business leader, especially a startup CEO, do to survive a downturn. Ray Zinn, the longest serving...
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Social Causes and Smart Business
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-CauseBiz01.mp3Stories and charitable causes are a dime a dozen in the modern start-up era. What is the right balance...
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Entrepreneur, Prepare to Pivot
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SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) came around 2002. It was right at the end of the dot-com implosion. For...
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Dictator Leadership
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-Dictators01.mp3Sometimes you choose a management style and sometimes it chooses you. In this edition of the Tough Things First...
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Decide Differently
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-DecisionsDifferently01.mp3Entrepreneurs make decisions all day, but do successful entrepreneurs make decisions differently? In this Tough Things First podcast, Ray...
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Polishing Your Business Narrative
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Your business idea is like a diamond hauled from the dirt. You have to clean it off and polish...
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Bad Managers
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-BadManagers01.mp3At one time or another, we’ve probably all worked for a bad manager and perhaps wondered if the boss’s...
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Happy Innovation
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Many leaders don’t see the connection between happiness and corporate innovation. Well, at least until everyone is unhappy and...
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