Eric Dingler was running two businesses remotely while his family traveled full time, and every week he and his wife sat down to review the numbers. When they paused that meeting for what was meant to …
Leading a Department When You’re Not the Expert — with Stephanie Mitchell
Stephanie Mitchell was an ICU nurse who had moved into hospital administration when the C-suite called her in and asked her to take over the laboratory temporarily -- a department she knew nothing …
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Why Self-Promotion at Work Isn’t Vanity — with Dr. Jonathan Thorp
Jonathan Thorp spent 24 years as a naval aviator, then led organizational development at JPMorgan Chase before becoming CEO of Quantum Connections. His favorite mistake was assuming that creating …
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Why Delegating the Finances Became a Blind Spot — with Publicist Susan von Seggern
Susan von Seggern joined a friend's Los Angeles PR agency in the late 1990s as the business development half of the partnership and left the money to her partner. Business was good, so when she …
A Pilot’s Least Proud Moment Was Saying Nothing — with Captain Steve Montague
Steve Montague flew F-14s in the Navy and spent 37 years at American Airlines, the last four as a check airman. Early in his airline career, after a month of flying with a captain who shut him down …
What Magicians Know About Recovering From Mistakes — with Michael Chaleff
Michael Chaleff spent a year working restaurants and bars as a magician before law school, in rooms where he knew things would go wrong, and walked in without a plan for what to do when they did. In …
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