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Outsourcing is the bad boy of business, blamed for poor quality, unethical salaries, inhumane conditions, and even the ruination of industrialized economies. Yet, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, and almost every Fortune 500 company outsources, and the industry is growing at breakneck speed.

Hiring an offshore team can save a company 70% on its staffing costs and offer previously unimaginable access to a near-infinite pool of 2 billion highly qualified professionals. It’s a game changing proposition for businesses.

Globalization and technology are connecting the world’s 8 billion people into one single online economy. For three decades, the outsourcing industry was a sleeping giant, generating $200 billion annually, and employing tens of millions of people, but mostly invisible to the traditional economy.

Now, the giant is waking. Only recently has outsourcing become an option for small and medium-sized businesses. Previously, due to technological limitations, it was the exclusive domain of the big multinational conglomerates. Many smaller businesses have now heard of offshoring, but few really understand its full potential or how it can be applied to their company.

Author of Inside Outsourcing, Derek Gallimore, joins Adam to shed the light on the concept of outsourcing.

Discover:

• What outsourcing really means for the typical business, entrepreneur, or manager
• Should we embrace this movement or run from it?
• Why outsourcing is the ‘bad boy’ of business
• Will it cause the downfall of economic stability in the West or catalyze humanity’s next step-change in prosperity and innovation
• And so much more!

This is a must-hear episode if you don’t want to miss this game-changing opportunity.

Belonging is an archetypal experience that we all seek. In the workplace, a sense of belonging will only happen if you have both diversity and inclusion. When you facilitate diversity in hiring practices and instill inclusive policies, procedures and behaviors, your organization has its best chance of creating a culture that supports a sense of belonging for everyone.  

Diversity is a fact. Inclusion is a behavior. Belonging is an experience. Diversity is a fact in that you can look around you and note that there are people like yourself alongside people who aren’t like you. Inclusion, meanwhile, is a set of behaviors, frameworks or approaches that promote psychological safety and connectedness among team members.

Licensed therapist, DDS Dobson-Smith, joins Adam to discuss: 

• How to become aware of your own social conditioning and dismantle internalized racism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism 
• What inclusive policies, practices and behaviors within the organizational infrastructure lead to a culture of belonging
• What you should be measuring to determine whether you have a culture of belonging in your workplace 
• What key takeaways from the psychology of belonging inform how to impact workplace performance 
• And so much more!

Don’t miss this very important episode on diversity and inclusion so that your employees feel like they belong at work.

Consumers see right through the traditional advertisement.

Potential customers are going to seek out your customer reviews – whether you want them to or not.

Word-of-mouth marketing, or referral marketing is the cheapest and best way to get new customers.

So, how can you get in front of this, practice transparency, and make your customer experience as seamless as possible?

Feature a couple of your negative reviews (yeah – I said it) to make your testimonials page really stand out from the rest. By including these, you’re saying “hey – we heard you, and here’s what we’re working on,” and that, in combination with the clear emphasis on transparency, will go a long way.

Marketing expert, Laura Nelson joins Adam to discuss:

Courageous leaders are calling for a disruptive yet effective way of working: one that unlocks new levels of innovation, financial results, and customer loyalty while building human capacity to contribute.

The good news is there is a proven, but infrequently taken, path.

Carol Sanford shows leaders why today’s so-called business “best practices” undermine success—and, how to transform a business into something so flexible, so innovative, so developmental, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market.

Carol joins Adam to discuss:

• How to deal with highly competitive markets, even commodity
• What exponential growth means in numbers
• The key to not being able to be knocked out of a market in fast changing world
• How to keep from being displaced by investors
• And so much more!

Want to know the secret to being non-displaceable in your market? Tune in!

You’ve heard it before, ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.’ In today’s world, servant leadership is the new way to lead.

This term has become popular lately, but many people have trouble understanding exactly what it means.

When you observe an individual practicing servant leadership, you are experiencing a person who embodies the concept of actions being louder than words. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy where the goal is to serve others and lead by example.

By incorporating a servant leadership model within an organization, employees will build up their confidence, exert more authority, and create a sphere of influence. When entire companies adopt Servant Leadership theory and apply it, you will see transformational leadership in not just the company’s words and “about us” section but in the actions of individuals at every level of the company.

Kurt Uhlir is a long-time practitioner and believer in servant leadership.

This approach to both work and life creates the possibility of unlocking what Kurt calls High-Achieving Servant Leadership.

He joins Adam to discuss:

• What High Achieving Servant Leadership is;
• How this leadership approach can accelerate growth and maintain it;
• The characteristics of an effective servant leader;
• And much more!

Learn more about this fascinating approach to leadership, and how it can help you achieve true success!

Ask any successful entrepreneur what their top tip to success is, and they all swear by the power of focus and dedication. Or what A.J. Lawrence calls Deliberate Entrepreneurship.