Corporate Competitor Podcast

Ep. 173: Field hockey at the University of Delaware and Team USA shaped Rachel's competitive spirit and teamwork skills that help her lead a dynamic team across 17 countries. You will learn:

• Four questions she asks employees to foster positive learning conversations with her team.

• The best way to identify a "diamond in the rough" who may be hiding in your business.
• How to implement and maintain an open door policy in a hybrid work environment. "Make it super clear you want them to reach out to you … then actually get back to them," said Barger.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

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Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team towards personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Ethan Salzberg and Francisco Nunez for making this episode possible.

Ep. 172: Football and baseball shaped Bob whose 33 years working for P&G culminated in his role as Chairman, President, and CEO. Under his leadership, P&G added nearly one billion people to its global customer base, and its stock price increased by 60 percent in his four years as CEO.

Following his career at P&G, Bob was selected by President Obama to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. While at the helm of the VA, Bob was able to help transform the agency into one that truly delivered better care for our Military veterans.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Lessons include:

• The small but impactful ways to be intentional about setting high standards of behavior from the top of the organization.
• How to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.
• Deploying what McDonald calls 'The 5 E's" to optimize your organizational capability.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Elizabeth Dole Foundation
• Every Cure
• West Point Association of Graduates

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team toward personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to T.J. Percell and Brian Schnorr for making this episode possible.

Ep. 171: To celebrate our new book that hits shelves March 12th, Coach Prime and I discuss the mindset that keeps him highly motivated – and highly motivating – after an impressive career.

This Pro Football Hall of Famer played 14 seasons in the NFL and nine seasons in Major League Baseball. His 1992 World Series appearance makes him the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. Now he is developing young men into leaders as the football coach at University of Colorado.

In this episode and BONUS LEADERSHIP RESOURCE, lessons include:

• 5:00 How to "make confidence your natural odor"
• 8:30 The doubters Deion faced at an early age
• 10:30 Emphasizing "team" in a system where individuals are drafted and compensated
• 12:30 The unexpected place where Deion played his best football
• 17:00 How he turned time on the Aflac set into a mentoring moment with Nick Saban
• 19:00 Why time is your most valuable "coin"
• 23:00 Distinguishing between great skill and great leadership
• 30:00 Coaching someone to excel in their existing strengths

Special thanks to Samantha Clark and Francisco Nunez for making this episode possible.

Ep. 170: Pickleball fuels the competitive fire of David Rogier who founded the streaming platform that makes it possible for anyone to watch or listen to hundreds of video lessons taught by 200+ of the world's best. In our conversation and DOWNLOADABLE BONUS RESOURCE.

You will learn:

• 5:00 The extraordinary lesson about education passed down to him by his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor and inspirational figure behind MasterClass
• 10:00 Behind-the-scenes stories of the first three signings: Serena Williams, James Patterson, and Dustin Hoffman
• 15:00 How to practice and test before you go big
• 20:00 Why Sara Blakely inspired David to send out a company memo talking about the "best failure" of the week
• 25:00 The difference between what people say they want and what people actually want based on their actions—and why you need to measure both.
• 28:00 How to find out what really matters to your customer so you can make their first experience as easy as possible

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time, Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team toward personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Ethan Salzberg and Francisco Nunez for making this episode possible.

Ep. 169: She was the first woman to lead the multi-billion-dollar global company and shares her success didn't come easily. Today we discuss the lessons in her new book, Making Waves: A Woman's Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart and Courage.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team towards personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Ethan Salzberg and Francisco Nunez for making this episode possible.

Ep. 168: CU Boulder Track and Cross Country shaped this CEO who runs a coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. Today, more than 45,000 members in 35 countries rely on Vistage to help make better decisions for their companies, families, and communities.

Learn how to set personal goals around the "Six F's" of family, finances, function (your job), fitness, faith, and future.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time, Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team towards personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Meredith Grimm and Vincent Jones for making this episode possible.

Ep. 167: Giants Wide Receiver David Tyree's "helmet catch" immediately went down as one of the iconic moments in Super Bowl lore, but did you know it likely wouldn't have happened had Eli Manning and Tyree not "connected" earlier as colleagues and teammates?

Incredible athletic feats such as this are what Super Bowls are made of; but behind such feats are unseen examples of leadership that create the conditions for them to happen.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time, Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team toward personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Francisco Nunez and Samantha Clark for making this episode possible.

Ep. 166: Basketball shaped the CEO at the helm of the global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes. Kevin's days coaching have taught him the value of teamwork– lessons he applies to his 8,300 Dexcom employees that go to work to accomplish the mission of empowering people to take control of their health.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time. Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team towards personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Tommaso Martone and Samantha Clark for making this episode possible.

Ep. 165: Squash shaped this "ex-Wall Street businessman" who quit his job at age 42 and enrolled in the International Space University to pursue his dream. In this episode you will learn how to:

• Determine the right pace of change for yourself and your organization.
• Interview new hires for culture as well as competencies using the "two-value" technique.
• Instill a growth mindset through the principles of autonomy, mastery and purpose.

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team towards personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Kyle Smedley and Francisco Nunez for making this episode possible.

Ep. 164: Georgetown Volleyball shaped this leader's career, which includes 20 years at The Coca-Cola Company, where she led Worldwide Agency Operations across 200 countries and was recognized as one of Advertising Age's "Women to Watch."

In order to create a positive work-life balance, she learned how to set boundaries — but with one proviso. "Boundaries aren't of any value if you don't share them," she noted. "People can't honor boundaries they don't know about."

Our BONUS RESOURCE for this episode includes fill-in-the-blank notes and reflection questions. Click here to download the bonus resource.

Looking for a speaker for your next event? From more than 30 years of interviewing and studying the greatest winners of all time Don offers these live and virtual presentations built to inspire your team towards personal and professional greatness.

Special thanks to Tommaso Martone and Ryan Tevlin for making this episode possible.