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What are you willing to do to get what you want?

What’s the biggest mistake any leader can make?

Believing that you have to choose between being good and being successful.

Is your business about purpose or profit?

Is your company culture about human values or market value?

Do your people work with you or for you?

As an ethical leader, you don’t have to choose. Rabbi Yonason Goldson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching ethics. Joining Adam, he shares his wisdom on preserving the ethical mindset in this new, virtual world.

Discover:

• What misconceptions make ethics a challenge;
• How an increasingly virtual culture is affecting our collective awareness of ethical values and principles;
• What ethical issues have arisen from the current crisis;
• Practical steps to take if we want to become more ethical;
• And much more! ​

Imagine replacing distraction, disengagement, and conflict with passion, purpose, and productivity.

When we make plans, we naturally believe that the future will go according to plan. That wrong-headed mental blindspot, the planning fallacy, results in not preparing for contingencies and problems, both predictable ones and unknown unknowns.

We suffer from the tendency to prioritize the short term, and undercount the importance of medium and long-term outcomes. Known as hyperbolic discounting, this cognitive bias is especially bad for evaluating the potential long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky wants to protect us from cognitive bias and joins Adam to share his insight and strategies for adapting to the pandemic.

Discover:

• How to identify where the current reaction to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic might be oriented excessively toward a short-term and/or optimistic outlook;
• The neuroscience-based evidence for how we tend to make poor choices in the face of slow-moving major disruptions like the pandemic;
• Techniques to evaluate and shift your career trajectory, professional development, and business model to adapt to and plan effectively for the pandemic;
• How to develop a long-term strategic plan to navigate successfully the disruptions caused by the pandemic;
• And so much more!

We’re not out of the COVID-19 woods yet, and if you want to learn how to prepare for long-term, tune in!

Building and running a successful business is difficult to say the least. Toss in having a disability and the challenge of running a business increases exponentially.

Legally-blind since birth, Steff Green never let others’ misconceptions about her disability stop her from living her dream life. A six-figure USA bestselling author, Steff joins Adam to share her tips for not letting a disability get in the way of your dreams.

Discover:

• Why it is so important for disabled people to see people like them succeed as business owners;
• Why imagination, creativity, and perseverance are vital for success;
• What Steff means by ‘change is opportunity’;
• What opportunities exist for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs;
• And so much more!

Listen to this inspiring story of one woman’s journey from failed archeologist to best selling author.

Change either paralyzes or energizes – the choice is yours. ShiftShapers shape the shifts in business and industries into new business models, products and best practices.

David Saltzman is one of the foremost experts in Transformation Strategies. After more than 300 interviews with industry ShiftShapers, he has revealed that despite their diversity and the differing offerings, all of them share seven distinct success strategies. He joins Adam to share some of those strategies.

Discover:

• How ShiftShapers start their process;
• What makes this so unique;
• Tips to create awareness and bring innovation to market;
• How creative disruption can allow us to work within existing infrastructures and industry;
• How someone can apply and profit from these techniques in business;
• And much more!

If you want to become a ShiftShaper in your industry, tune in!

71% of CEOs believe their employees are the most important factor in their company’s economic success. The Human Resources planning process is simply the process by which organizations determine how to properly staff to meet business needs and customer demands. Despite the need, nearly a third of HR professionals say their departments need to improve strategic alignment!

The closer the alignment between HR and an organization’s overall business strategy, the better the company’s ability to anticipate and respond to customer needs and maintain a competitive advantage. Research, planning, and development involving workforce culture, behaviors, and competencies promote the successful execution of business strategy.

Certified HR expert, Ed Krow, spends his days helping companies build strong HR strategies. This week, he joins Adam to give us a few pointers.

Discover:

• Six key areas where HR can contribute to the overall strategic business plan;
• Why Strategic Human Resource Planning is important;
• Benefits of Strategic HR Management;
• Objectives of Strategic HR Management;
• And much more!

Could your HR department use some fine tuning? Don’t miss this episode!

As a salesperson, you need to know how to connect with your prospects effectively, and in order to do that, you need to know their motivations for buying.

Each prospect has an authentic identity, something that defines who they are as a person. Once you are able to figure out your prospect’s authentic identity, it’ll be easier for you to talk to them in a way that they can relate to you.

As a former sales rep, John Voris teaches people to look at the objects surrounding prospects and other physical evidence that will describe their beliefs, values, and motivations. Joining Adam, John reveals his secrets to successful selling.

Discover:

•  If you really know your prospect;
• Why we should rethink everything we know about sales;
• What people are really buying;
• When we buy something, what we are actually possessing;
• And much more!

Do you really know your prospect enough to sell them something? Join us and find out.

University and college education can still too expensive and unapproachable for the majority of people throughout the country. Normal distractions of work, bills, and home life, often prevent someone from getting started with education or being able to dedicate time and money to a traditional 4-year degree program.

Student debt has now reached a level of epic proportions.  At $1.34 Trillion in the United States alone, it’s larger than both auto and credit card debt.  It places a crushing burden on young learners, and often prevents working adults from getting the modern skills and education they need to improve their livelihood.

Grant Aldrich is here to change that. Joining Adam, Grant divulges his purpose-driven mission: make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone.

Discover:

• How people can pay less for college;
• The benefits of utilizing open source or Open Educational Resources (OER)
• The benefits today of going to college;
• And much more!

Do you want to know how you (or a family member) could obtain college credits toward a degree, at no cost, don’t miss this episode!