August 25th, 2010
Join Chris and his guest this week and find out how youthful emerging markets across the globe, armed with new ideas, new ways to engage customers, new solutions to age-old problems, and new organizational models, are changing their future and ours. Chris’ guest this week is Rob Salkowitz, who has authored Young World Rising, a book that spells out how your organization can engage with these young entrepreneurs, in a variety of ways, to create opportunities and achieve sustainable growth in the wake of the global recession.
Join us this this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from anywhere on your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About the Author:
Rob Salkowitz is a writer and consultant specializing in the social implications of new technology and the next-generation workforce. He has worked with Microsoft and other leaders in global business to help formulate market strategy and articulate business goals. As an entrepreneur, Rob has helped start seven businesses and is a principal in the Seattle-based communications firm MediaPlant, LLC. Rob is author of Generation Blend and coauthor (with Daniel Rasmus) of Listening to the Future, both from Wiley. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
Tags: entrepreneurship, global, information, Technology, The Global Economy, world, Youth
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August 19th, 2010
On this week’s show, Chris and his guest, Paul Collier, author of The Plundered Planet, will have a lively discussion about how
must, and how we can, manage nature for global prosperity. Proper stewardship of natural resources is a matter of planetary urgency: they have the potential to either transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart. These issues affect our environment, our politics and our global economy.
Join us this this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from anywhere on your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About the Author:
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. In addition to the award-winning The Bottom Billion, he is the author of Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places.
Tags: environment, environmentalism, Global warming, industrial, natural resources
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August 5th, 2010
If your business involves selling ideas, products, and/or services, you won’t want to miss this week’s program. Chris’ guest will be New York-based corporate communications expert, Michael Maslansky. Mr. Maslansky’s book, The Language of Trust, explores how to build trust and credibility through choosing the right words and properly structuring your message for in-person, written and digital communication. He will also reveal common phrases we all use that MUST be dropped from your vocabulary in this post-trust era.
Join us this this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from anywhere on your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About the Author:
Michael Maslansky is one of corporate America’s leading communications and research strategists. As president and CEO of Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research, he advises leading corporations, industry associations, major litigation practices and non-profit organizations on what to say, how to say it and, most importantly, why it matters. His clients include PepsiCo, the Financial Services Roundtable, eBay, Bank of America and Microsoft and he has appeared on CNN and Fox News. Michael lives in New York City.
Tags: confidence, corporate, skepticism, strategic, Trust
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July 29th, 2010
Were the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler inevitable? How did Ford avoid disaster? Should taxpayers have bailed out the auto giants? Who is to blame for the troubles of the automobile industry? On this week’s program, Chris and his guest, Paul Ingrassia, will explore the answers to these pressing questions.
Join us this this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About the Author:
Paul Ingrassia is the former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 (with Joseph B. White) for reporting on management crises at General Motors, Ingrassia has chronicled the auto industry for more than twenty-five years. His latest book, “Crash Course: the American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster,” is the first book published about the 2009 bailouts and bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Meet the Press, the PBS Newshour, CNBC, National Public Radio and more. He’s a frequent op-ed contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Edmunds.com and other publications.
Tags: automobile, bail out, bankruptcy, unions
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July 22nd, 2010
Using the findings from brain scans, cognitive experiments, and behavioral studies, this week’s guest and Chris Murray will talk about our new understanding of how our minds work, and how to apply that knowledge to management of your business. Charles Jacobs, the author of Management Rewired, will take us on a journey from the first glimmers of conscious thinking in our ancestors to the groundbreaking discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Join us this this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About this week’s author:
Charles S. Jacobs is founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of corporations around the world improve the performance of their businesses. He numbers among his clients fifty of the Fortune 100, and has worked in Europe, Asia, South America, and the U.S.
His unique approach enables managers to use our new understanding of the brain to comprehensively rethink their businesses, creating more robust competitive strategies and the performance-oriented organizations needed to implement them. His work provides the key to overcome the number one obstacle to meaningful improvement in business performance—the rapid and effective management of change.
His writing has appeared in numerous business publications and he is sought after for print and broadcast interviews. His seminars and speeches offer an overview of the stunning discoveries of brain science and the direct, practical application of those discoveries to management. He completed his B.A., M.A., and PhD work at the University of Michigan.
Tags: Capitalism, management, science
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July 22nd, 2010
Well it’s official…the administration is creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The new bureaucracy is being formed after a year long battle in congress that was led by Sen. Christopher Dodd (D) of Connecticut and Rep. Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts. More than a few Americans are questioning why Obama would pile on this new layer at a time of record government spending and deficits. They have a point.
I mean, why wouldn’t the government focus its time and effort on enforcing all of the rules and regulations that exist already and have existed for decades. Two former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairmen have said just that, “we don’t need new laws from Washington D.C., we just need those with the responsibility to step up and do their jobs”. Instead, we hear stories of SEC enforcement officials surfing pornography at their work desks on the American taxpayer’s dime. What a pathetic sight that must have been, don’t you agree?
So, who will build and lead this new agency? Will it be Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor, or another Ivy League or Washington insider? We’ll know this answer very soon. The next questions are:
1.) Will the nominee be able to work with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner?
2.) Will the annual budget of $500,000,000.00 (yes, that’s $500,000,000.00 every year) corrupt those in power at the agency?
This administration, and the government in general, have not been able to balance its own checkbook and keep elected and appointed officials, aides, etc. in order…do they really expect the citizens of this great country to believe the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will do any better for you and me?
Tags: agency, Bureaucracy, consumer, financial, government, protection
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July 1st, 2010
Saturday’s show will feature two highlighted interviews from last year. First up is Randy Jones, author, publisher, and media executive who has spent 30 years in the publishing, TV, Internet, film and media businesses. He is the founder of Worth, the financial lifestyle magazine for active, wealthy investors. Often regarded as an industry maverick, he became the youngest publisher of a major magazine in history when, at age 29, he took the helm of Esquire magazine (later sold to the Hearst Corporation). He will be talking with Chris about his latest book, The Richest Man in Town, a compilation of interviews and experiences of the richest, most successfull people in towns across America.
If you are part of a one income household, you will want to catch the second interview with Susan Reynolds. Ms. Reynolds has been a professional writer and editor for more than twenty years, and concurrently a marketing consultant for more than a decade. Most recently, she authored five nonfiction books and edited nine books, including six anthologies. Ms. Reynolds is currently the editor of Adams Media’s new Hero series. She will be talking with Chris about her recent book, One Income Household.
Join us this this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
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June 25th, 2010
Chris Murray, Your Financial Editor
Joining Chris this week on YFE will be Governor Gary Johnson, former Republican Governor of New Mexico and honorary chairman of the Our America Initiative to talk about his recently released “Three Point Plan for Economic Prosperity”. Tune in this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About this week’s guest:
Governor Gary Johnson, former Republican Governor of New Mexico and honorary chairman of the OUR America Initiative. This national advocacy initiative allows Governor Johnson, a longtime advocate of responsible government spending and limited government intervention, the ability to travel across the country to engage the public in open dialogue regarding pertinent issues of the day, including: lowering taxes, reducing deficits, creating jobs, a strong national defense and protecting our civil liberties.
Governor Johnson has garnered significant national press and media coverage since the launch of OUR America late last year, and recently released his “Three Point Plan for Economic Prosperity.” In addition, he has been a featured speaker at several high profile events in the past weeks, including the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) in New Orleans. Governor Johnson has shared his message of limited government intervention and a return to common-sense governing with huge crowds at Tea Party events in California, Arizona and South Carolina. Governor Johnson is also a longtime advocate of the legalization of marijuana, and has discussed the economic and crime reduction arguments for legalization on national media programs and websites.
Tags: Economic Prosperity, government, jobs, spending, taxes
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June 17th, 2010
Chris Murray, Your Financial Editor
Two of the best of past YFE programs will be on this week. First up is an interview with Vicky Ward, author of The Devil’s Casino - friendship, betrayal, and the high stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers before the fall. The second guest will be economist Craig Thomas, who penned The Econosphere - a look into what makes the economy really work, how can we protect it, and how can you maximize your opportunity for financial prosperity. Join Chris this Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD, or listen from your pc by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
Tags: financial, Lehman Brothers, prosperity, The Global Economy
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June 10th, 2010
Chris Murray, Your Financial Editor
The history of investment and techonology suggests that economic recovery might be closer than we think, with a new silicon-based global elite at the helm. This week on YFE, Chris and his guest will explore the possibility that the global economy is poised to enter a new phase of robust, dependable growth – a techonological “golden age”! Tune in Saturday morning at 8am on AM 930 WFMD. Listen from your PC by logging onto www.wfmd.com and clicking the listen live button.
About this week’s guest:
Mark Stahlman is a Wall Street technology strategist who has been sriting about tech-driven growth cycles for more than 20 years. Chris and Mark will be talking about his recent article in Strategy + Business magazine, The New Golden Age.
Tags: economic recovery, growth, Technology
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