The Entrepreneurs
Derek Lidow is a former business founder of a major global semiconductor company that he ultimately sold. Today, he's a professor at Princeton, where he teaches entrepreneurship, the topic of his newe...
10 Juni 202356min
The Birth of a Building
When Walter Chrysler built his New York skyscraper in the early 1930s, his critics stated the building was a monument created for himself. The same comment could have been applied to John Jakob Raskob...
2 Juni 202355min
The Little Book of Boards
Curiosity drives much of the content on this podcast, and when Erik Hanberg's book, The Little Book of Boards, showed up in my email, I felt compelled to buy it for several reasons. Of the six or sev...
26 Maj 202354min
The Indiana Jones of Business Archives
Not only is Neil Dahlstrom the author of the business historical narrative Tractor Wars, but he's also the Branded Properties and Heritage Manager at John Deere. Before that, he was Deere's Corporate ...
22 Maj 202317min
Tractor Wars
All of us have heard of the cola wars, the tennis shoe wars, and certainly the PC wars. But the tractor wars? Neil Dahlstrom is a historian and archivist for John Deere, and he's the author of Tracto...
20 Maj 202337min
Derek Sivers, The Reluctant Entrepreneur
Derek Sivers was an accidental business founder. All he wanted to do was put his music online and sell it online before the dotcom bubble when PayPal did not exist yet. During one four-year period, h...
13 Maj 202345min
The Women Tech Freelancers of the 1960s
One of the best books we've read in 2023 is the story of Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, who started a business of women freelance programmers in a male-dominated world in the 1960s based in London. ...
5 Maj 202334min
A Systems Thinking Mindset
We learned many linear frameworks in business school to help us solve simple to complex problems. Yet, systems thinking was probably missing from that curriculum. The Fifth Discipline (Senge) and Sys...
28 Apr 202352min
