Episodes

Interview with Jeff Kanter
June 22, 2018

Interview with Jeff Kanter

Jeff Kanter is the co-founder of My Academy of Health Excellence which provides a holistic approach to healthcare and wellness. They help individuals and groups including small entrepreneurs save money on medical expenses, ev...
Top Ten Pricing Lessons
June 15, 2018

Top Ten Pricing Lessons

We are sorry folks. John Stossel had to cancel because an injury. We wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to having him on in the future. We decided to discuss a Ron’s Pricing Masterclass that he presented in Melbourne...
Interview with Alessandra Lezama, CEO, AbacusNext
June 8, 2018

Interview with Alessandra Lezama, CEO, AbacusNext

Ed and Ron are honored to interview Alessandra Lezama, CEO of AbacusNext, a sponsor of The Soul of Enterprise. Alessandra possesses strategic hands-on leadership skills, drawing on extensive cross-industry experience, sustain...
Project Management: Execution
June 1, 2018

Project Management: Execution

Ron and Ed have talked project management before, but the focus was always around project planning and scope creation. In this episode, they conversation shifts to project execution and the tools needed as well as some actual...
Free-Rider Friday, May 2018
May 25, 2018

Free-Rider Friday, May 2018

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
Interview with Mary Ruwart
May 18, 2018

Interview with Mary Ruwart

Ron and Ed are pleased to welcome Dr. Mary Ruwart to the show to discuss her new book, Death by Regulation. During this episode we will explore how the FDA is directly affecting your life and the lives of millions, if not bil...
Interview with Phil Rosenzweig, Author of The Halo Effect
May 11, 2018

Interview with Phil Rosenzweig, Author of The Halo Effect

Ed and Ron are honored to interview Phil Rosenzweig, the author of one our all-time favorite business books, The Halo Effect and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers, originally published in 2007. We discu...
Interview with Economist Michael C. Munger
May 4, 2018

Interview with Economist Michael C. Munger

Ed and Ron are honored to interview economist Michael C. Munger, whose recent books include Choosing in Groups (coauthored with his son, Kevin Munger) and The Thing Itself, both in 2015. His research interests include the stu...
Free-Rider Friday, April 2018
April 27, 2018

Free-Rider Friday, April 2018

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
Interview with Blair Enns
April 20, 2018

Interview with Blair Enns

We are honored to interview Blair Enns, another crusader for Value Pricing and burying the billable hour. He wrote the fantastic book, The Win Without Picthing Manifesto, and his latest is Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profi...
Interview with Donald Boudreaux
April 13, 2018

Interview with Donald Boudreaux

Ron and Ed are thrilled to interview Donald Boudreaux. Prof. Boudreaux is an economist, author, professor, and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatus Center at George Mason Univer...
Your Customer Defines Quality Not You
April 6, 2018

Your Customer Defines Quality Not You

This episode is dedicated to the possibility that quality is not objective goodness but rather conformance to a requirement. For a professional this means the customer's requirement, not just professional standards. Viewing q...
Free-Rider Friday, March 2018
March 30, 2018

Free-Rider Friday, March 2018

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
Net Neutrality: Interview with Professor Thomas Hazlett
March 23, 2018

Net Neutrality: Interview with Professor Thomas Hazlett

Ed and I are honored to be able to interview Professor Thomas Hazlett, one of the country's leading economists in the are of the wireless spectrum, FCC regulation, etc. We will discuss his most recent book: The Political Spec...
Interview with Peter Block
March 16, 2018

Interview with Peter Block

Full disclosure: We prerecorded this episode. In our opinion, it is phenomenal. Peter Block is just incredible. Do yourself and your customers and your neighbors and your family, a favor and give this one a listen. This episo...
How to Have a Value Conversation
March 9, 2018

How to Have a Value Conversation

Without the value conversation, there can be NO value pricing. Without the ability to have this conversation, value pricing is dead on arrival. Without knowing what the perceived value is, there is no way to use it as the pri...
Taking Down Trickle Down
March 2, 2018

Taking Down Trickle Down

“Trickle Down Economics” is hurled around as a pejorative by politicians, the media, and other opponents of free markets. Yet there is no such theory in learned histories of economic thought. It’s a non-existent theory, a car...
Free-Rider Friday, February 2018
Feb. 23, 2018

Free-Rider Friday, February 2018

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
Bad Medicine
Feb. 9, 2018

Bad Medicine

For 2,400 years patients believed doctors were doing good; for 2,300 years they were wrong. Until the invention of antibiotics in the 1940s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. Why do bad ideas die har...
Interview with Barry Melancon
Feb. 2, 2018

Interview with Barry Melancon

Ron and Ed are thrilled to be interviewing Barry Melancon, President & CEO, American Institute of CPAs and CEO, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. Barry joined the AICPA in 1995 when he was 37 ye...
Free-Rider Friday, January 2018
Jan. 26, 2018

Free-Rider Friday, January 2018

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in th...
The Laws of Systems Thinking
Jan. 19, 2018

The Laws of Systems Thinking

Peter Senge posits the Laws of Systems Thinking in Chapter 4 of in his seminal work, The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. During this show, Ron and Ed will introduce you to the basic concep...
Best Business Books
Jan. 12, 2018

Best Business Books

Thousands of business books are published each year. Some are worthless, fewer still have lasting value, but a handful possess the ability to transform your business (and possibly, your life). Yet with today’s busy and demand...
2017: Year in Review
Jan. 5, 2018

2017: Year in Review

Ed and Ron will discuss some of their favorite shows from 2017; discuss a selection of best books that they read during the year; comment on the notable people we lost in 2017 as well as some other topics.