Podcasts

  • Episode 30: Truth – aligning realities between you company and your customers

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-30-Truth-aligning-realities-between-you-company-and-your-customers.mp3Can you create your own truth? Are your observations truth? What is the truth? Do we actually know the...

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  • Episode 29: Heroes – you and your team can easily be heroes every day

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-29-Heroes-you-and-your-team-can-easily-be-heroes-every-day.mp3What are the criteria for a hero? Simple habits make a person a hero in the eyes of those...

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  • Episode 28: Friday Talks and Employee Motivation

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-28-Friday-Talks-and-Employee-Motivation.mp3Looking for employee inspiration, education and motivation? In this week’s podcast, Ray Zinn talks about the “Friday Talk” technique...

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  • Episode 27: The American Dream

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-27-The-American-Dream.mp3Is the American Dream still alive? In this episode, Ray Zinn discuss the role of optimism in the entrepreneurial...

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  • Election Civility

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Edition-election-civility.mp3This presidential election has demonstrated the lowest levels of common decency and the most disgusting form of vulgar communications,...

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  • Special Edition: David Greer and Corporate Culture

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Edition-David-Greer-and-Corporate-Culture.mp3David Greer — an entrepreneur, angel investor and business coach — discusses with Ray Zinn why corporate culture is...

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  • Special Edition: David Greer and Corporate Planning

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Edition-David-Greer-and-Corporate-Planning.mp3David Greer — an entrepreneur, angel investor and business coach — discusses strategic corporate planning with Ray Zinn, who...

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  • Episode 22: Key to hiring the best employees

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-22-Key-to-hiring-the-best-employees.mp3Hiring really good employees predisposes your company toward success. But how do you do this? Ray Zinn knows how,...

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  • Episode 21: Momentum: How to keep employees engaged

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-21-Momentum-how-to-keep-employees-engaged.mp3Life and work are marathons, not sprints – regardless of what too many startups believe. But few employees are...

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  • Episode 20 – The employee happiness quotient

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-20-The-employee-happiness-quotient.mp3What makes happy people, and thus happy employees. Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO tells you the secret and how...

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  • Episode 18: Overcoming Entrepreneurial Adversity

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-18-Overcoming-Entrepreneurial-Adversity.mp3Ray Zinn knows adversity. He went blind during his company’s IPO, yet stayed at the helm for another 20...

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  • Special Edition: Draper University student interviews Ray Zinn on Venture Capital

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Edition-Angie-Carrillo-not-taking-venture-capital.mp3Angie Carrillo, a student at Draper University and co-founder of Liks.co, interviews Ray Zinn about funding startups. The wide-ranging...

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  • Episode 17: Wine industry vs semiconductor

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-17-Wine-industry-vs-semiconductor-where-the-government-does-not-help.mp3Ray Zinn discusses how offshoring in his semiconductor industry has impeded American social and economic progress, and what Congress...

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  • Special Edition: Greg McKeown, Essentialism and Discipline

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Edition-Greg-KcKeown-Discipline-Essentualism.mp3Greg McKeown, the New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism interviews Ray Zinn to discuss discipline and how is makes...

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  • Special Edition: Humanistic Vision

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-16-Humanistic-Business-2.mp3Anu Parthasarathy interviews Ray Zinn, the longest serving CEO in Silicon Valley, on why entrepreneurs who having a focus...

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