Listen to “#555 How to Liberate Crazy Big Ideas Within Your Company” on Spreaker.

On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…

SEGMENT 1, starting at 0:00: We all have crazy ideas in business, but few of us have the courage and the resiliency to bring those ideas to life in the marketplace. Safi Bahcall studies crazy big ideas he calls “loonshots” and helps liberate them within organizations.

SEGMENT 2, starting at 19:30: Many small business owners experience betrayal somewhere in their career – from a long time employee leaving or a loyal customer going to a competitor or a million other reasons for you to think you have been lied to or cheated. Betrayal will happen – it’s part of business – but how do you bounce back from it? Susan Stautberg is here to help.

SEGMENT 3, starting at 36:45: The biggest problem that small business owners always tell me they face is getting more prospects for their company. Stacy Tuschl of Foot Traffic Formula is here to help.

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More on each segment below.

 

SEGMENT 1: Safi Bahcall is a physicist and entrepreneur. He is the author of “LOONSHOTS: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries”.

1:40 – What is a loon shot?

3:30 – How did you first get interested in big crazy ideas?

6:30 – How do we liberate crazy big ideas within our organizations?

11:00 – How do you manage the transfer of big ideas from ideation to execution?

14:30 – How the structure of your company affects your culture around big ideas.

SEGMENT 2: Susan Stautberg is Governance Advisor to the portfolio companies of Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm. She has written or been featured in numerous articles including The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal, Oprah, The Today Show, CBS Evening News, And CNN. She is the coauthor of a new book with Elaine Eisenman titled “Betrayed: A Survivor’s Guide to Lying, Cheating, & Double Dealing”.

19:30 – Why write a book on betrayal? Have you been betrayed?

21:00 – What makes us feel betrayed?

22:30 – Are there early warning signs that someone is going to betray you?

24:30 – How do you decide whether you should seek revenge or let it go?

27:30 – Advice for surviving a betrayal.

30:45 – How do you learn to trust again after being betrayed?

SEGMENT 3: Stacy Tuschl of Foot Traffic Formula is a 3rd generation entrepreneur who started her first business at the age of 18 in her parents’ backyard. She turned that company into a seven-figure business that she still runs today.

36:45 – Why are small businesses so bad at identifying quality prospects?

40:45 – How do you develop the discipline needed to niche down and focus on what you’re really great at?

43:00 – How to develop a disciplined process for sales and marketing, and why you’ll never be done marketing.

45:00 – The secret to bringing qualified leads in every single day. 

47:30 – Where to start in getting more qualified prospects for your company.

 

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