• .00 Mike Hansborbough – “I remember driving to work one day in Cleveland, and I’m on the main highway going in from the west side suburbs, and I thought to myself as an engineer, and I started adding up I my head: like how many hours am I spending in this car every day? I think it might have been a day where there was a little bit of a traffic jam or something. And I added it u and I got up to like three hundred hours conservatively. And I was like whoa! That’s like two man-months that I’m spending in my car going 45 minutes into town and 45 minutes back every single day. And I thought wow, what a waste. And so, a couple of weeks later and a couple of conversations with Gobe, and I was like you know what? Let’s save the money on the office. Let’s go virtual. And we can do that; we already had a few of the tools. Not everything worked out; it was a little bumpy at first. But yeah. So, we pulled the trigger, put out a press release, went virtual, and the rest is history.”
  • 1.06 Welcome – Hello everyone, I am Rishi Katz and welcome to The Oval Table where we discuss all things related to helping those who live and work inside your business survive, thrive, avoid pitfalls, have more fun and become successful faster. Getting advice from someone outside your business can make a big difference. And that is what we seek to do each and every week.
    • Here at The Oval Table, we believe every voice matters and we want to model how that works. Often the advice that makes the difference comes from where you least expect it. So much more is possible when everyone’s ideas makes it to the table.
  • 1.51 Host Introductions
  • 2.00 Show Content Outline
  • 2.47 In Remembrance of Ron Popeil
  • 6.54 The We Are Alpha Dogs Resource
  • 7.23 Interview – Mike Hansborbough – Managing a Virtual Business
    • How to start a virtual business
    • How we engage customers and collaborators
    • We are able to search globally for the best talent
    • We help people become international vendors to us
    • Vendors have great ideas, and you have to invite them to the Table with you
    • Our vendors are our strategic advantage
    • Let everyone have a voice at the Table
    • The Oval Table allows for different styles of learning and communicating
  • 34.27 Oval Table for Top Dogs
  • 34.55 Post Interview Discussion – Mike Hansborbough
    • If you seek the vendor’s input, you will improve your operations and products
    • Create innovation by looking forward to finding strategic advantages
    • Always be forward looking past the horizon to find real opportunities
    • Adopting business operations to his style of working and serving customers
    • Mastering customer satisfaction – where, when, and as needed
    • Going virtual to find the right talent, to serve the customer’s needs in the way they wished to be served
    • Mike is a decorated Navy veteran – how this helps him, stay tuned!
  • 38.40 Von’s Three Questions
    • The three questions every businessperson should ask themselves and their employees
    • What are you doing?
    • What do you think you are doing?
    • What should you be doing?
    • These questions bring clarity and focus to what you are doing
    • What affect are you having?
    • What affect should you have?
    • What affect do you think you are having?
    • Start your day and end your day with these questions
    • Start your Oval Table meeting with these questions, end with these questions
    • A lighthearted way to use your time to focus and bring value to the business
    • When you ask employees at all levels these questions, real change happens
    • Everyone in the organization needs to speak up and be apart of making success happen
  • 44.32 Show Credits
  • 44.58 We Hope you have a productive and inspirational week!

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