Hiding Mistakes, Hiring to Grow, and Becoming the Bottleneck — with Eric Dingler
Eric Dingler was running two businesses remotely while his family traveled full time, and every week he and his wife sat…
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Leading a Department When You’re Not the Expert — with Stephanie Mitchell
Stephanie Mitchell was an ICU nurse who had moved into hospital administration when the C-suite called her in and…
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Why Self-Promotion at Work Isn’t Vanity — with Dr. Jonathan Thorp
Jonathan Thorp spent 24 years as a naval aviator, then led organizational development at JPMorgan Chase before…
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Why Delegating the Finances Became a Blind Spot — with Publicist Susan von Seggern
Susan von Seggern joined a friend's Los Angeles PR agency in the late 1990s as the business development half of the…
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A Pilot’s Least Proud Moment Was Saying Nothing — with Captain Steve Montague
Steve Montague flew F-14s in the Navy and spent 37 years at American Airlines, the last four as a check airman. Early in…
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What Magicians Know About Recovering From Mistakes — with Michael Chaleff
Michael Chaleff spent a year working restaurants and bars as a magician before law school, in rooms where he knew things…
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Why the Cheapest Supplier Is Rarely the Cheapest — with Carl Pradelli
Carl Pradelli spent 18 months building a co-branded skincare launch with the Home Shopping Network, then watched it…
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Twenty Years Inside Healthcare Didn’t Protect Her Husband: Tiffany Auvil on Caregiving and System Failure
Tiffany Auvil spent more than twenty years inside the U.S. healthcare system, starting as a volunteer firefighter and…
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