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Supply Chains – The Onshore Option
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-SupplyChainBacktoCONUS01.mp3Are jobs and manufacturing poised to return to the United States? What will it take? In this Tough Things...
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How to Set SMART Startup Goals at The Idea Stage
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-SmartGoals01.mp3Not all start-up ideas are created equally. In fact, most are doomed to failure. Are there ways to determine...
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Friendly, Not Friends
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-FriendlyNotFriend01.mp3Entrepreneurs can either learn this quickly or slowly, but eventually they’ll learn or fail. Relationships with employees are about...
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Creating Enduring Businesses – The Top Three Tough Things To DO
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Guy-Special-creating-enduring-business-Final.mp3To create an enduring business means creating one that will last. That is different than creating a startup and...
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Strategies for Managing Work Stress
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-WorkStress01.mp3No matter what phase a company is in, or the level of employee or management, work stress goes with...
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Ruthless Consistency
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Michael-RuthlessConsistency01.mp3Ray Zinn sits with Michael Canic to discuss Michael’s new book, Rutheless Consistancy and how discipline fits into the business...
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Worker Decentralization
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-WorkerDecentralization01.mp3World circumstances put more people in a work-from-home situation and companies forced to manage it than ever before. In...
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Greedy CEOs
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/RayGuy-GreedyCEOs01.mp3Some CEOs are greedy, for their wallets, for market share, for fame. Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO has seen...
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Toxic Corporate Culture
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/RayGuy-ToxicCulture01.mp3How do toxic corporate cultures arise, and how do you cure them? The Silicon Valley leader with the lowest employee...
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Being Best When You Aren’t Feeling It
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-BestWhenNotFeelingBest01.mp3It can sometimes be painfully obvious we’re not physically or mentally up to a task, but what happens when...
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Pitching Your Company – The Top Three Tough Things
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Guy-Special-pitching-your-company-Final.mp3Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO talks about the three tough things to do when pitching your company. If you...
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Corporate Culture, Part 3 – in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chatman
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Chatman-Part-3.mp3Third and final part of a series where Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO chats with Professor Jennifer Chatman, a...
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Corporate Culture, Part 2 – in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chatman
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http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Chatman-Part-2.mp3Part two of three in a series where Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO chats with Professor Jennifer Chatman, a...
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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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