Author: Don Yaeger

Movement Mortgage CEO Casey Crawford says: Make yourself needed.

Written on November 18, 2021.

Casey Crawford Movement Mortgage CEO says: Make yourself needed. Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 71 [chevron-down] Listen here or on your favorite platform Apple Podcasts Spotify Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

How Duke’s Legendary “Coach K” Is Putting the Success into Succession Planning

Written on November 17, 2021.

The 2021 – 2022 NCAA basketball season marks the final season for Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University’s legendary coach, after 46 seasons on the Blue Devil’s bench. During this period, Coach K, as he is known, won five national championships and three Olympic gold medals as a head coach. His legions of fans, who extend beyond the Duke hoops family, will be watching him closely this year in the hope the classy coach known...

Alteryx CEO Mark Anderson asks: Do you know how your teammates define success?

Written on November 15, 2021.

Mark Anderson Alteryx CEO asks: Do you know how your teammates define success? Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 70 [chevron-down] Listen here or on your favorite platform Apple Podcasts Spotify Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

The Cleveland Browns Just Practiced Addition Through Subtraction – Should You?

Written on November 10, 2021.

It’s lonely at the top. At least directors, and even vice presidents, have peers they can talk to. Your CEO, on the other hand, is all alone. So, it’s small wonder how much they have to say when they get together at leadership events like the one I spoke at last week in Arizona. After my formal talk, a smaller group of attendees asked me to stay and join them for a discussion about business leadership during the pandemic....

Amicus Therapeutics CEO John Crowley teaches how to be purpose-driven.

Written on November 5, 2021.

John Crowley Amicus Therapeutics CEO teaches how to be purpose-driven. Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 69 [chevron-down] Listen here or on your favorite platform Apple Podcasts Spotify Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

Pro-football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton says: Don’t sit back and accept your fate.

Written on November 2, 2021.

Fran Tarkenton Pro-football Hall of Famer says: Don’t sit back and accept your fate. Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 68 [chevron-down] Listen here or on your favorite platform Apple Podcasts Spotify Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

College Quarterback McKenzie Milton Couldn’t Pass Up The Chance To Help His Team

Written on October 27, 2021.

You’re a backup quarterback and your team is winning handily. The head coach approaches because he wants you to take over the game, adding to your stats. Instead, you look at the coach and let him know the TEAM would be better, the program better, if the coach skipped you and inserted the younger third-string quarterback in the game, and then the fourth-stringer after that. The coach looks incredulously at you because...

Saxum Founder & CEO Renzi Stone says 1,000 small conversations beat one big one every time.

Written on October 25, 2021.

Renzi Stone Saxum Founder & CEO says 1,000 small conversations beat one big one every time. Corporate Competitor Podcast Episode 67 [chevron-down] Listen here or on your favorite platform Apple Podcasts Spotify Search Episodes Search by name, company or episode number. Generic...

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian Asks: When Dark Skies Are Upon You, Can You See A Path Forward?

Written on October 20, 2021.

Growing up as the oldest of nine children whose parents ran a dental practice out of their home in Poughkeepsie, NY, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian sought refuge on basketball courts and baseball diamonds, playing “just about every sport there is involving a ball.” But as the elder statesman among his brothers and sisters, he was called upon to serve as a role model for his younger siblings when family bathroom squabbles...