What merchandising lessons can small business learn from Big Boxes? Tom Anastasi joins Jim Blasingame with merchandising ideas borrowed from big boxes that small businesses can use to compete on everything but price.

Are you thinking clearly? Bob Fischer joins Jim Blasingame to explain the importance of visualizing the Six Thinking Hats strategy by incorporating the colors associated with each step into your thinking process.

Do you focus your thinking when strategizing or developing a new plan? Bob Fischer joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to use the Six Thinking Hat approach to organizing your thinking, each hat representing a strategic area.

How can you be more like Steve Jobs? Jim Blasingame talks about the late Steve Jobs’ entrepreneurial vision on innovation, customer focus, and uncompromising quest for excellence and how you can be like him.

How do you get employees to take ownership of their assignments? Rick Maurer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to explain the concept of ownership of and assignment to employee and then manage their ownership successfully.

Should there be a quicker protocol for drug and medical device availability? Paul Howard joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why FDA standards cause new drugs and medical devices to be delayed in America longer than those in Europe.

What if Steve Jobs innovations would have had to get approval by the FDA to get to market? Paul Howard joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether the FDA approval process is unnecessarily delaying the approval of new drugs and devices.

Why is the accomplishments of Steve Jobs an American story? Frenchman Guy Sorman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the impact of visionary inventors like Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs could only happen in America.

How could a strategic alliance be a form of innovation? Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to talk about her upcoming seminar where mergers, acquisitions and alliances will be discussed as a form of innovation.

To have customers you can’t run off, help your customers help their customers. Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to think of innovation as a way to help your customers serve their customers better.