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#11 - The Self-Awareness of Great Leaders, with Ron Price

Ron Price is an internationally recognized executive coach, speaker, author, and business advisor. He has served in almost every level of executive management over the past 40 years and is the Founder, President, and CEO of Price Associates.

Listen as Ron talks about his journey, working with his dad, how leaders need to be self-aware, and the 70/30 rule.

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#9 - How to 10X Your Sales, with Amanda Holmes

Amanda Holmes is CEO of Chet Holmes International. CHI has helped over 200,000 businesses get to the next level with 12 core competencies for doubling sales. They offer the best-selling book, The Ultimate Sales Machine, written by their founder Chet Holmes.

When Chet passed away at the age of 55, Amanda took over the company. Her story and sales advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine and the Entrepreneur Weekly podcast, as well as many other prominent blogs, shows, webinars, and events.

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#7 - Develop a culture of connection, with Michael & Katie Stallard

Michael is an author, speaker, and consultant specializing in leadership, employee engagement, organizational health, productivity, and innovation. He is the co-founder and president of Connection Culture Group and E Pluribus Partners.

Katie is a gifted connector, speaker and teacher, and a partner at the Connection Culture Group. Audiences and workshop participants enjoy her sense of humor and practical advice. Comfortable in front of people, she’s been singing in a cappella groups for more than 24 years and has even done a bit of TV and film work. She’s the first to admit that she “loves a microphone.” A surprising piece of her story is that she is a three-time cancer survivor.

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#6 - Leading and working remotely, with Kevin Eikenberry

Kevin Eikenberry is a world renowned leadership expert, a two-time bestselling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. Kevin is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a leadership and learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993. Kevin's most recent book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, "shows leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership".

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#4 - Become a Security Ninja, with Zack Schuler, CEO of Ninjio

Zack Schuler is the founder and CEO of Ninjio, a security-awareness training company that produces a 3-4 minute video every month featuring a story of a security problem and showing how the problem can be avoided. The videos are scripted by a genuine Hollywood writer and animated by the team at Ninjio in California. They have proven to be incredibly effective at helping companies prevent malware and phishing attacks in their business and the personal lives of their employees.

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#3 - Never Stop Growing, with Luis Alvarez

Luis Alvarez is President and CEO of Alvarez Technology Group, an IT managed services provider in Salinas, California.

In less than a decade, Luis Alvarez has grown Alvarez Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) from a small two-person consultancy to the premier information technology (IT) solutions provider on the California Central Coast, delivering IT services to more than 200 companies throughout the state.

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#2 - Operationalize your operations with Rex Frank

Rex Frank is President of Sea-Level Operations. He founded the company in 2010 with the core purpose to “Coach IT Managed Service Providers on achieving operational excellence.” In March of 2004, Rex was an inaugural member of the True Profits! Service Executive peer group where he learned to be accountable for service financial metrics, documenting and implementing Managed Services best practices policy and procedure and how to focus his time working “ON” Service Delivery rather than “IN” Service Delivery.

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#1 - Welcome to the Manage 2 Win Podcast, with David Russell & Jeff Russell

Welcome to our new podcast!

We learned a lot with the No Bad Bosses Podcast and decided we wanted to continue talking to people, learning, and engaging with our audience.

The Manage 2 Win Podcast will follow the same interview format as our previous podcast. However, we will be opening up our theme and focus to allow for a wider variety of guests and topics. The No Bad Bosses podcast focused on leadership and management, hiring and employee issues. We spoke with a lot of leaders in the IT industry and elsewhere.

In this podcast we plan on covering those topics, but we also want to discuss other aspects of life and business that may impact your ability to manage to win.

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