Podcasts

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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Supply Chains – The Onshore Option

How to Set SMART Startup Goals at The Idea Stage

Friendly, Not Friends

Creating Enduring Businesses – The Top Three Tough Things To DO

Strategies for Managing Work Stress

Ruthless Consistency

Worker Decentralization

Greedy CEOs

Toxic Corporate Culture

Being Best When You Aren’t Feeling It

Pitching Your Company – The Top Three Tough Things

Corporate Culture, Part 3 – in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chatman

Corporate Culture, Part 2 – in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chatman

Corporate Culture, Part 1 – in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chatman

Make Points, Not Enemies