Mark Beckner talks with Bill Ringle about the vast opportunities available for freelancers who code when they prioritize and demand more from themselves.

Dorriah Rogers talks with Bill Ringle about the principles and benefits described in Decide to Profit.

 

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

The impact a mentor had on Rogers' life and career, and how he inspired her to be her own person.

How the Lego company used a single, unified goal to really turn things around.

The importance of not only giving everyone in the company or organization, not just the decision makers, a voice.

How to teach employees to tie their ideas to the overarching goal: making money.

Rogers' 9 steps to a better bottom line.

New York Times Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Leadership Expert

Courtney Lynch talks with Bill Ringle about how each of us can become better leaders and create a better world on My Quest for the Best.

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.

Interview Insights

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

How integrating leadership development for women allowed Walmart to solve problems at the store levelThe common challenges that arise from people working together: conflicts or power struggles that need to be resolved; miscommunication around expectations, scheduling, and style; and much moreTips for achieving human connection even when you’re working remotelyHow to use feedback to be an inspiring leader instead of an alienating leaderWhat it means when high performance teams have the courage for candor

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

1:02 Lynch tells about how her experiences with the United States Marine Corps shaped her abilities as a leader.2:48 “I’m not someone who would’ve been able to afford going to graduated school, but thanks to my military service – the GI Bill is a fantastic vehicle – and so I went to law school after my time in uniform, and through the opportunity was able to enter the profession as a full-fledged attorney.”3:26 Lynch describes how working in the law firm wasn’t the kind of work that she found fulfilling.4:05 [On creating the startup with Angie Morgan] - “Our firm’s 14 years old, but I still remember the startup days like they were yesterday…there’s a lot of vision, a lot of ambition and that phase of a business. You’re motivated to work hard, and you know you want to add value and you want to have a positive impact.”4:35 [On having Walmart as a first customer] - “When you’re a tiny little startup and Fortune1 becomes your first customer, you learn a lot quickly.”5:02 “We didn’t have a strong platform to stand on, but we were incredibly passionate about what we had to offer.”5:54 [On getting Walmart as a client] - “Walmart was a cold call, but it was an informed cold call.”6:21 “I realized that the problems Walmart had, the challenges Walmart had…when you’re such a big organization, you’re a cross section of society, just like the Marine Corps…so my thinking was, if they had leadership development experiences, especially for their female employees, problems could be caught at the store level.”7:06 “We just happened to connect with someone inside their diversity department whose father had served in the Marine Corps and really understood the practical value of leadership development for making any work force better.”7:54 “I say it’s kudos to Walmart rather than kudos to us for investing in a small, women-owned business.”8:16 [On why clients contact them] - “It’s people right? Anytime there’s 2, 3, of or more people working together, there’s bound to be friction.”8:28 “We hear consistent challenges.

New York Times Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Leadership Expert

Courtney Lynch talks with Bill Ringle about how each of us can become better leaders and create a better world on My Quest for the Best.

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.

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Interview Insights

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

How integrating leadership development for women allowed Walmart to solve problems at the store levelThe common challenges that arise from people working together: conflicts or power struggles that need to be resolved; miscommunication around expectations, scheduling, and style; and much moreTips for achieving human connection even when you’re working remotelyHow to use feedback to be an inspiring leader instead of an alienating leaderWhat it means when high performance teams have the courage for candor

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

1:02 Lynch tells about how her experiences with the United States Marine Corps shaped her abilities as a leader.2:48 “I’m not someone who would’ve been able to afford going to graduated school, but thanks to my military service – the GI Bill is a fantastic vehicle – and so I went to law school after my time in uniform, and through the opportunity was able to enter the profession as a full-fledged attorney.”3:26 Lynch describes how working in the law firm wasn’t the kind of work that she found fulfilling.4:05 [On creating the startup with Angie Morgan] - “Our firm’s 14 years old, but I still remember the startup days like they were yesterday…there’s a lot of vision, a lot of ambition and that phase of a business. You’re motivated to work hard, and you know you want to add value and you want to have a positive impact.”4:35 [On having Walmart as a first customer] - “When you’re a tiny little startup and Fortune1 becomes your first customer, you learn a lot quickly.”5:02 “We didn’t have a strong platform to stand on, but we were incredibly passionate about what we had to offer.”5:54 [On getting Walmart as a client] - “Walmart was a cold call, but it was an informed cold call.”6:21 “I realized that the problems Walmart had,

New York Times Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Leadership Expert Courtney Lynch talks with Bill Ringle about how each of us can become better leaders and create a better world on My Quest for the Best.

Joe Calloway, author of Magnetic, talks with Bill Ringle about being intentional about attracting new business and satisfying your existing customers.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

The importance of committing to make every business experience to be a positive one for all involved

How to get more positive WOM (word of mouth)

The single most important strategic asset for many companies and how it relates to your relationship with your customers.

What he said to correct a misunderstanding, even when it came at significant out-of-pocket expense to replace 600 of the wrong title books sent to the meeting planner

Listen to this interview to learn: Marketing secrets from a prolific, bestselling author. How he designed his book to have wide appeal through social media and traditional channels. Lessons about becoming comfortable with who you are and making the most of your strengths in business and in life. Stefan Swanepoel talks with Bill Ringle about using our innate strengths to overcome challenges in business and in life.

Listen to this interview to learn: Marketing secrets from a prolific, bestselling author. How he designed his book to have wide appeal through social media and traditional channels. Lessons about becoming comfortable with who you are and making the most of your strengths in business and in life. Stefan Swanepoel talks with Bill Ringle about using our innate strengths to overcome challenges in business and in life.

Stefan Swanpoel talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about embracing who you are and reveals some industry secrets about how to become a bestselling author.

Jonathan Raymond, Owner of Refound

Jonathan Raymond talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about the culture of accountability, the proper way to give feedback, and developing an organization that puts people first.

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.

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Interview Insights

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

Why organizations are putting so much thought into a “people first” cultureHow to give feedback without micromanagingHow a software company gave their senior management the room to play at the level of their titleThe one mistake organizations make over and over againThe importance of embracing uncertainty

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

1:10 Raymond recounts his first real experience in entrepreneurship, telling about the “driveway car wash’ he owned with his friends.1:33 [On lessons learned from this early venture] - “One of the lessons was the operating costs are always higher than you think they are.”1:50 “Any industry worth being in is crowded.”2:15 How law school taught Raymond to show up in the world in a professional way.2:53 “My education in law school really helped me write with some structure, rather than just stream of consciousness, but to actually put one idea after the next in a way where something builds.”3:05 “A lawyer is able to string a series of good ideas together and build an argument, right? Which is what a good book or a good blog post is: it’s a good argument for advocating a a piece of change.”3:45 Raymond describes what it was like working 3 jobs out of law school, and still barely being able to cover rent. 4:04 [Paraphrasing Andy Warhol] - “You know you’re on track in your life when you’re using the best and the worst of what’s happened to you over the course of your journey.”4:26 “If I want to have an impact in the world, I’m going to have to take some steps, and there’s going to be some painful moments along the way.”4:52 [On Raymond’s Clients at Refound] - “I think the biggest problem we help people with, I would say, is overwhelm and ambiguity.”4:55 “In most modern organizations, there’s a lot of thought being put into ‘How do we create a people first culture? How do we engage with employees? How do we create the conditions where people feel like they’re coming to work not just to create profit for owners and shareholders, but a sense of personal meaning.”5:27 “What we’ve been able to do is offer a real tactical approach for how to do, in particular, feedback and accountability in an organization that really grounds the way people operate on a day to day basis.”5:53 “Where organizations go sideways, and where things start to degrade, is in the actual conversations between managers and employees, between managers and one another, and, very importantly, between managers and senior executives.”7:39 [Case Study Software Company in south bay, CA] - “There was this big aha moment, which is fairly common, where all of the managers in the organization [realized] how they were sort of playing a level down or two levels down from their title.”8:26 “It’s incremental. Nothing changes overnight. Nothing worth doing changes overnight.”9:09 “And that’s really the best part of this work for me.