My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle - the podcast for ambitious business owners.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Peter-Bregman_20121022.mp3″ thumb=”https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/peter_bregman2.jpg” config=”skinwavewithcomments” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth.

Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a global management consulting firm that advises CEOs and their leadership teams. He speaks, writes, and consults about how to lead and how to live.

He is the author, most recently, of 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, which was the winner of the Gold Medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year on NPR, and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Post as a top 10 business book of the year. He is also the author of Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change and co-author of five other books. Featured on PBS, ABC and CNN, Peter is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, National Public Radio (NPR), Psychology Today, and CNN, as well as a weekly commentator on Fox Business News.

Peter began his career teaching leadership on wilderness and mountaineering expeditions and then moved into the consulting field with the Hay Group and Accenture, before starting Bregman Partners in 1998. Peter has advised CEO and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations, including Allianz, American Express, Brunswick Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FEI, GE Capital, Merck, Clear Channel, Nike, UNICEF, and many others.

Peter bases his work on the notion that an organization, at its core, is a platform for talent. By unleashing that talent, focusing it on business results, and aligning it with a compelling vision, both the individual and the organization thrive. Since 1989, Peter has trained and coached all levels of management and individuals to recognize their leadership, exhibit leadership behaviors, model and stimulate change, and foster their own development and growth as well as that of their teams and colleagues.

For more information, visit Peter’s website.

Web address: PeterBregman.com

Travels From: New York, NY

Follow Peter: 

Cal Newport and Bill Ringle discuss the value and necessity of systematic practice in developing deep skills for small business leaders.

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth.

Washington, D.C.

Cal Newport is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He previously earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2009, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2004.

Cal is the author of three books of unconventional advice for students, which have sold a combined total of more than 100,000 copies: How to Be a High School Superstar, How to Become a Straight-A Student, and How to Win at College. His most recent book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, is a contrarian look at career advice.

In his role as an author, Cal has appeared on ABC, NBC, and CBS and on over 50 radio networks, including ABC Radio, USA Radio, and XM Satellite Radio. His advice has been featured in major publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal; taught in college classrooms; and cited in at least one college textbook. His Study Hacks blog, which chronicles his attempts to decode “patterns of success,” attracts over 100,000 unique visitors a month.

For more information, visit Cal’s website.

Web address: CalNewport.com

Web address: Study Hacks blog

Travels From: Washington, D.C.

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Rodger-Dean-Duncan_20121022.mp3″ thumb=”https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rodger_dean_duncan.jpg” config=”skinwavewithcomments” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• What newscaster Jim Lehrer taught Rodger about good interviewing
• Why it is important to set up and maintain an environment to challenge the status quo
• How an losing agra business turned itself around in 12 months and yielded a $252 million profit
• Points of effective communication with a change initiative
• The importance of being wiling to be influenced

After an early career as an award-winning journalist and university professor, Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan founded Duncan Worldwide in 1972 to serve the needs of organizations seeking to boost performance. His client roster ranges from American Airlines, IBM, Consolidated Edison, and Sprint, to Black & Veatch Engineering, eBay, Federal Reserve Bank, and presidential cabinet officers in two White House administrations.

A highly-sought-after speaker, trainer, and executive coach, Rodger is widely known for his expertise in the strategic management of change – for individuals as well as for organizations. He has been the keynote speaker at many industry conferences and workshops related to human performance and organizational effectiveness. In addition to his consulting practice, Rodger headed worldwide communication for Campbell Soup Company and was vice president of a global energy company.

Rodger is the author of Change-friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. The Duncan Report, his Internet column on leadership and organizational effectiveness, now reaches opt-in business subscribers in over 130 countries.

For more information, visit Rodger’s website.

Business Phone: 816-415-1605 

Web address: DoctorDuncan.com

Travels From: Kansas City, MO

Follow Rodger: 

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Nick-Sarillo_20121008.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb=”https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/nick_sarillo.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

Chicago, IL

Nick Sarillo is the founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub, the sixth busiest independent pizza company in per-store sales in the United States. Founded with the purpose of providing the community with an unforgettable place where families could relax and have fun, Nick’s Pizza & Pub has margins nearly twice that of the average pizza restaurant and boasts an 80 percent employee retention rate in an industry in which the average annual turnover is over 150 percent.

A regular speaker at entrepreneurship and HR conferences, Sarillo credits his company’s success to his purpose-driven culture. Nick is also the author of A Slice of the Pie: How to Build a Big Little Business, which offers small business owners a handbook for creating a culture that will support a business through good times and bad – even in an industry where turnover is high, expectations are low, and a college degree is not required.

For more information, visit Nick’s website.

Web address: NickSarillo.com

Travels From: Chicago, IL

Follow Nick:

>>> 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.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Michael-Hoffman_20130114.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb = “https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/michael_hoffman.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• How the careful choice of language creates mental hooks that carry learning forward
• The benefits of living “on purpose”
• The bank case study that highlights the importance of simple actions that help your team connect with customers

My Quest for the Best is the podcast where ambitious small business leaders discover strategies and tactics to unlock their growth potential.

Give us a 5-star rating and positive review to make it easier for other small business owners to find and benefit from our work!

See all listening options (Overcast, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, and more)

Michael Hoffman is President of Igniting Performance, a company that specializes in the skills of sales, customer loyalty and leadership. Over the last 17 years, Michael has delivered professional speaking engagements and customized training to organizations across this country and abroad, including IBM, Microsoft, SYSCO Foods, California Press Association, and many more.

As a speaker and leader, Michael seeks to help people cultivate the tactics and techniques necessary to approach their jobs “on purpose,” with an attitude of ownership and professionalism. He uses his varied background – as a waiter, DJ, entrepreneur, TV host, sales manager, human resource generalist, and national sales trainer – to drive home his message that business is and will always be about “people”, and that how businesses approach customers sets them apart from the competition.

For more information, visit Michael’s website.

• Web address: IgnitingPerformance.com
• Travels From: Dallas, TX
• Follow Michael:

>>> 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.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Jamie-Wolf_20110425.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb=”https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jamie_wolf.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• How to use available resources to bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
• Important questions to ask about yourself on the road to entrepreneurial growth.
• The importance of resilience to being a successful entrepreneur.

My Quest for the Best is the podcast where ambitious small business leaders discover strategies and tactics to unlock their growth potential.

Give us a 5-star rating and positive review to make it easier for other small business owners to find and benefit from our work!

See all listening options (Overcast, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, and more)

Jamie Wolf works with entrepreneurs who want to transform dreams into viable businesses and with regional economic development organizations that assist entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur herself, she has traveled the world raising money from angel investors. She’s currently writing a book related to dignity, happiness, and resilience, particularly for entrepreneurs.

• Business Phone: 843-694-7443
• Travels From: Charleston, SC
• Follow Jamie: 

>>> 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.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Bob-Cooper_20111120.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb = “https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bob_cooper.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• Where to look to identify cutting edge business trends.
• The significance of a freemium model for market testing.
• Case study of a company that learned the benefit of selling ancillary products to accommodate customer space constraints.
• The need for a safe space to explore ideas and new ways of doing business.
• How important leadership is in supporting or diluting the success of a project.

My Quest for the Best is the podcast where ambitious small business leaders discover strategies and tactics to unlock their growth potential.

Give us a 5-star rating and positive review to make it easier for other small business owners to find and benefit from our work!

See all listening options (Overcast, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, and more)

Bob Cooper is the founder and President of Frontier Service Design, LLC, a consulting firm that works with corporate clients to identify, design, build and launch innovative services that create new and recurring revenue streams. With over 25 years of experience in marketing, branding, technology development, interactive media, business design and executive leadership, he has launched one of the first firms in the United States to focus exclusively on service design. In fact, this is his second time on the “frontier” of a macro trend.

He quit his full-time marketing job to start his first company – an interactive marketing company called Frontier Media Group, Inc. – at the age of 29. That company was recognized by AdWeek as one of the nation’s “Top 50 Interactive Agencies” and by Deloitte & Touche as one of the “Fast 50”, and garnered Bob recognition as “Entrepreneur of the Year” from the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

Bob has also co-authored a book about Philadelphia-based entrepreneurs entitled Dream, Inc.

For more information, visit Bob’s website.

• Business Phone: 610-407-4027
• Web Address: FrontierServiceDesign.com
• Travels From: Philadelphia, PA
• Follow Bob:

>>> 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.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Ed-Brodow_20120514.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb = “https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ed_brodow.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• The steps taken to transition from Hollywood studios to corporate stages
• How one firm took these lessons and increased their average sales price by 59%
• The number one asset you have control over and how to make the most of it
• Who is Ed’s role model for effective negotiations and how this character’s skills can benefit every professional

My Quest for the Best is the podcast where ambitious small business leaders discover strategies and tactics to unlock their growth potential.

Give us a 5-star rating and positive review to make it easier for other small business owners to find and benefit from our work!

See all listening options (Overcast, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, and more)

Ed Brodow is the world’s top spokesman on the art of negotiation. SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt dubbed Ed “The King of Negotiators,” Forbes Magazine ranks Ed as one of the nation’s leading dealmakers, and the Director of the IRS keeps Ed’s bestselling book Negotiation Boot Campnext to his bed.

Ed’s other books include Getting A Success Change: How to be Happy in a World Gone Mad and Negotiate with Confidence.

A nationally recognized television personality, Ed has appeared as negotiation guru on PBS, ABC National News, Fox News, Inside Edition, and Fortune Business Report. He is negotiating consultant to some of the world’s most prominent organizations, including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, Learjet, Raytheon, Philips, Hyatt, The Gap, Revlon, Zurich Insurance, Mobil Oil, and the Pentagon. As a speaker, he has enthralled more than 1,000 audiences in Paris, Athens, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Toronto, and New York.

A true Renaissance Man, Ed has been a corporate sales executive (IBM, Litton Industries); US Marine Corps officer; novelist; veteran member of Screen Actors Guild; and Hollywood movie actor with starring roles opposite Jessica Lange, Ron Howard, and Christopher Reeve.

For more information, visit Ed’s website.

• Business Phone: 831-372-7270
• Web address: Brodow.com
• Travels From: San Francisco, CA
• Follow Ed:

>>> 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.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Michael-Broder_20110314.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb=”https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/michael_broder.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• How joint venture partnerships yield significant marketing results.
• Tips on making partnerships mutually beneficial.
• How small ideas have the power to take your career in unexpected directions.

My Quest for the Best is the podcast where ambitious small business leaders discover strategies and tactics to unlock their growth potential.

Give us a 5-star rating and positive review to make it easier for other small business owners to find and benefit from our work!

See all listening options (Overcast, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, and more)

Michael S. Broder, Ph.D., is a psychologist and author whose work centers around helping people to bring about  change and resolve major life issues in the shortest time possible.

He is the author of several widely-published books, including The Art of Living Single, The Art of Staying Together, and, most recently, Stage Climbing: How to Achieve Personal Greatness in Any Area of Your Life. Dr. Broder has also created numerous audio programs.

In 1987, he founded Media Psychology Associates (MPA) to provide training and consultation services to a wide variety of clients, including employee assistance programs, law enforcement, and industral, education, and government organizations. He served as the Chief Psychologist of the Philadelphia Police Department from 1995-2000.

He has hosted an award-winning radio program; made countless radio and television guest appearances, including on Oprah and The Today Show; and written for or been quoted in numerous publications, including Time and The New York Times.

To learn more, visit his website: DrMichaelBroder.com.

• Business Phone: 215-985-1132
• Web address: DrMichaelBroder.com
• Travels From: Philadelphia, PA
• Follow Michael: 

>>> 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.

[zoomsounds_player source=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/MQ4B/MQ4B-Interview-Jim-Kukral_20111024.mp3″ config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb = “https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jim_kukral.jpg” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” enable_likes=”off” enable_views=”off”]

• The top mistakes business owners and executives make when using social media for business, and how to avoid them.
• The many ways that a business leader can use social media to position the business.
• Why it is critical to build a “platform” for communicating with social media and how to get started.
• How to use precise demographic targeting to reach the buyers most likely to appreciate your offers.

My Quest for the Best is the podcast where ambitious small business leaders discover strategies and tactics to unlock their growth potential.

Give us a 5-star rating and positive review to make it easier for other small business owners to find and benefit from our work!

See all listening options (Overcast, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, and more)

Jim Kukral is an internet expert who helps entrepreneurs, small business owners, and large companies like FedEx and Sherwin Williams learn how to find success online. His passion for teaching shines through in his training and coaching programs, and as a professional speaker Jim has presented to thousands of people across America on the topics of Web-entrepreneurism, success and failure, Internet marketing and more.

As a serial Web-entrepreneur himself, Jim has consistently innovated many online businesses, including Prfessor.com, a web-based solution that allows anyone to instantly create their own online university or training center. His latest venture focuses on bringing the power of self-publishing to the masses. You can learn more about this at Digital Book Launch and Content Every Day.

Jim was recently named as one of “The Most Influential Small Business People on Twitter” according to Dun & Bradstreet. He is the author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money and The Ultimate Pitch, and serves as a Program Faculty Member for the University of San Francisco’s Internet Marketing Program where he teaches classes to students around the globe on the topics of Internet marketing, Web monetization and social media.

For more information, visit Jim’s website.

• Web address: JimKukral.com
• Travels From: Cleveland, OH
• Follow Jim: