Dr. Joseph Nyre joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the origins and accomplishments of Iona College, and explain why a liberal arts education is still relevant to, and complementary of a technical curriculum.

Dr. Joseph Nyre joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the role that studying ethics plays in the education and pursuit of all disciplines, irrespective of any faith-based curriculum.

Dawn Fotopulos join Jim Blasingame to reveal the imperative of knowing the gross margins of your business – products, groups and total – as the only way to know if you’re running your business successfully.

Dawn Fotopulos join Jim Blasingame to recommend you meet with your CPA and do year-end tax planning, especially in the area of what expenses to pay before year-end, and what accounts receivable to make sure you collect.

Dawn Fotopulos join Jim Blasingame to encourage you to know how much profit any particular customer is delivering for you, and how to fix or fire any customer that’s a poor profit performer.

Steven Gaffney joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the consequences of being negative, which is primarily to manufacture inactivity and poor performance, also to get outside of your four walls and see what the world thinks of your business.

Steven Gaffney joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that taking past results from customers for granted, instead of constantly checking your position with them, is the quickest way to go out of business.

Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about examples of great companies that were taken down, because they didn’t see, or failed to take seriously, a market disruption right in front of them.

Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why a customer expectation today is likely to be irrelevant tomorrow, and how you respond to this maxim is likely to determine the survivability of your company.

Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the dangers of entrenched thinking among the management team, and how to avoid it.