Dale Hedges is Townsend Leadership Program Director at Hedges LCI Consulting, LLC. In this episode he shares his philosophy on business leadership, including how the art of leadership has been ignored by Lean practitioners. We discuss JIM-N-U, the five wastes of leadership, and how business leaders often fail at the art of self-awareness.

In this episode Rick Norberg shares his story of starting as a one-man I.T. shop and growing to now 50 employees and millions in revenue. Today, Rick mostly owns the business development responsibilities for Vertikal6 while while his COO Harry Curran leads company operations. But that wasn't always the case. Listen as Rick shares some of the skills he has learned on his journey from engineer to executive. Learn more about Vertikal6 at www.vertikal6.com.

We are not sure if we want to use Facebook or Twitter to promote our business, or any social media platform for that matter. It is a question we have been trying to answer for a few months. In this episode we discuss some of the positive and negative aspects of social media and how those aspects can affect your business.

Jeff also wrote a blog post about this very topic called The Social Media Dilemma. You can check it out here: https://www.manage2win.com/blog-posts/2019/7/16/the-social-media-dilemma

Robert MacPhee is CEO of Excellent Decisions. In this episode we discuss 5 characteristics of effective leaders and how those characteristics determine whether a leader is successful or not. We also discuss specific examples of how those characteristics are displayed and a few real examples of business leaders we admire. Robert is an author, consultant, and coach, you can learn more about his work at www.excellentdecisions.com.

Travis Eliot is a world-renowned yoga instructor and meditation teacher. He teaches his signature Holistic Yoga Flow classes in Los Angeles and in workshops and retreats around the world. In this episode Travis discusses mindfulness, the difference between yin and yang yoga, how yoga and meditation can be beneficial for everyone, especially business people, and how one of the most violent inmates in a Maine prison became a yoga fanatic. Learn more about Travis at www.traviseliot.com