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Inspired and Intentional Business Podcast - Open Book Management, Business Vision, Employee Engagement, Balancing Profit and Social Impact

In the United States, according to Gallup, nearly 70% of employees are not engaged in their work. Disengagement negatively affects profitability and productivity. I believe there are 3 ways businesses can improve engagement. One, they inspire with a clear vision. Two, they practice open-book management. Three, they intentionally build collaborative, accountable, strength-focused teams. My intention is to inspire owners considering a new way to run their business and to encourage those currently fighting the good fight to balance profits and social impact. Let’s be inspired. The show will touch on business strategy, vision, internal communication, finance, accounting, organizational development, team-building, marketing, sales, and operations. Inspirations for the show include The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack; Zingermans Community of Businesses, Ari Weinzweig, Paul Saginaw, Small Giants by Bo Burlingham, Open Book Managment by John Case, Zappos, and others.
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Now displaying: January, 2017
Jan 31, 2017

In this, part 3 of 4, with Tom Root, he shares the benefits of using Open Book Management (OBM) in your company.
Tom is Managing Partner, Zingmerman’s Mail Order, continuous improvement leader and creator of a business maker space called Maker Works in Ann Arbor, MI.
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http://inspiredandintentional.com to join the community, see show notes, and to listen to past episodes.

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Jan 24, 2017

Radical Democratization of Financial Intelligence.

Learn how to give your team the information they need to truly become engaged and empowered in this part 2 of 4 with Tom Root. He’s Managing Partner, Zingmerman’s Mail Order and continuous improvement leader and creator of a business maker space called Maker Works in Ann Arbor, MI. 

Remember to go to http://inspiredandintentional.com to join the community, see show notes, and to listen to past episodes.

 

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Jan 17, 2017

Growing Your Business While Staying Small

 

Join me for the next four episodes as I speak with Tom Root, Managing Partner, Zingmerman’s Mail Order. Also continuous improvement leader and creator of a business maker space called Maker Works in Ann Arbor, MI. 

 

In this episode we talk about the concept of managing partners and how they choose to create a new business to help keep their businesses small. Yet at the same time, growing the number of businesses to give their employees more opportunities.

 

Remember to go to http://inspiredandintentional.com to join the community, see show notes, and to listen to past episodes.

 

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Jan 10, 2017

ZingTrain shares in this 10 webinar replay how they have created a system to facilitate change in their organization. This system makes sure it's in alignment with the great vision and purpose, gives it a process to test, implement, and communicate to the team/community.

Go to the Business Deep Dive page http://inspiredandintentional.com/deepdive on the site to get links to all the webinars for their slides and other downloadable resources.

Thank you ZingTrain for letting me rebroadcast these webinars.

Jan 5, 2017

What? For real? Most of the time, I believe most of think "effective" and "performance review" don't belong together. The team at ZingTrain share, through this webinar, their thoughts on ways to improve on this procedure that both managers and their employees dread.

Go to the Business Deep Dive page http://inspiredandintentional.com/deepdive on the site to get links to all the webinars for their slides and other downloadable resources.

Thank you ZingTrain for letting me rebroadcast these webinars.

Jan 3, 2017

Now what? Even if you have a great team, there are times when issues come up that disrupt what you're trying to achieve together. In this 8th ZingTrain webinar replay, the crew covers how you can work through these problems.

Go to the Business Deep Dive page at http://inspiredandintentional.com/deepdive on the site to get links to all the webinars for their slides and other downloadable resources for you to start working through those tough relationships at your organization.

Thank you ZingTrain for letting me rebroadcast these webinars.

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