BizBooks

BizBooks: Jackie Reses and Lauren Weinberg

Longtime Square executives Jackie Reses and Lauren Weinberg discuss their book Self-Made Boss: Hacks, and Lessons from Small Business Owners. They reached out across the country, talking to dozens of entrepreneurs with valuable businesses―and invaluable advice. This book is the product of that research. Part starter-kit, part encyclopedia, part inspiration, Self-Made Boss is filled with information not just about who these small business owners are, but how they built their companies, step by step.
Topics in this episode include:
00:46- The careers of Jackie Reses and Lauren Weinberg
10:15- Hiring experts, freelancers, or employees for your business.
21:41- Importance of providing mental health benefits for employees.
28:50- Finding employees in today's labor market.
36:49- Navigating your business's road blocks.
42:10- Diversifying your business.
50:35- How business has changed in the last 20 years.
Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Boss-Advice-Lessons-Business/dp/1264264097
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Trey Taylor

Trey Taylor is the managing director of trinity | blue, a consultancy designed to provide executive coaching and strategic planning to C-Suite leaders. His experience derives from fields as diverse as technology, financial services, venture capital, and commercial real estate development. Frequently featured as a keynote speaker, he has addressed attendees at the Human Capital Institute, the Ascend Conference, and many other engagements. You can find out more about Taylor’s consulting work at trinity-blue.com.
Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Trey-Taylor/e/B08LDWHCKF%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
 
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Thomas Erikson

Thomas Erikson is a motivator, author and lecturer. His book Surrounded by Idiots is one of the world’s best-selling non-fiction books and has been translated into over 40 languages.
Thomas has devoted over 20 years of his career to helping people communicate with each other, and along the way he's developed practical and functional tools that facilitate both professional and private life.
Get his book here: https://www.surroundedbyidiots.com/en...
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Laurie Weingart

Laurie Weingart co-authored "The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work" with Lise Vesterlund, Linda Babcock, and Brenda Peyser.
Laurie R. Weingart is a management professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as CMU’s Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer and as a Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center. Her award-winning research has been covered by The New York Times and Business Insider, and published in top management and psychology journals.
Get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Matt Watkinson

Matt Watkinson is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and business consultant. He has been cited and interviewed by the world's leading research firms, and invited to address industry leaders worldwide. His first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences, won the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award in 2014. Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Decision-... About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Danny Warshay

Danny is the founding Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at Brown University. He also runs workshops on Entrepreneurship in corporate, nonprofit, academic, and governmental contexts in countries around the world. He began his entrepreneurial pursuits while an undergraduate at Brown as a member of the Clearview Software startup leadership team. Apple acquired Clearview, and since then, he has co-founded and sold companies in fields ranging from software and advanced materials to consumer products and media. Danny received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He lives in Providence. Get his book here: http://dannywarshay.com/book About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Dr. Sherry Walling

Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Her company, ZenFounder, helps entrepreneurs and leaders navigate transition, rapid growth, loss, conflict, or any manner of complex human experience. She hosts the ZenFounder podcast, which has been called a “must listen” by both Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times. She is also the host of Mind Curious, a podcast exploring innovations in mental health care via psychedelics. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. Her soon-to-be-released new book, Touching Two Worlds, explores new strategies for finding wholeness in the aftermath of loss. Get her book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C91YF17/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07C91YF17&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=558562cf7c4a09dfe261500ba920e243&tag=zenfounder-20 About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Camille Fournier

Camille Fournier is an engineering executive and author of “The Manager’s Path”, as well as the editor of “97 Things Everyone Should Know About Engineering Management.”
She is the former Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway, a transformative brand that offers unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of women get dressed. She is also a member of the engineering leadership team at Two Sigma Investments. She is an open source contributor and project committee member for both Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework.
Prior to working for Rent the Runway, Camille served as a software engineer at Microsoft, and most recently, spent several years as a technical specialist at Goldman Sachs, creating distributed systems for managing risk analysis and firmwide infrastructure. She has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Camille is a well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of topics such as engineering leadership, distributed systems, scaling teams, and technical architecture. In 2017 she released her book, “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change.”
Get her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Clint Pulver

Clint Pulver is an Emmy Award-winning, motivational keynote speaker, author, musician, and workforce expert.
He’s also fun, dynamic, entertaining – and the no-stress speaker clients love to work with.
A Professional Drummer for over 20 years, he's played with top headlining fellow musicians in venues like the Vivint Arena, the Stadium of Fire, and the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. In 2010 he founded the UVU Drumline known as the Green Man Group, which he directed for six years and went on to direct the Drumline for the NBA’s Utah Jazz until 2015.
Clint was featured in Business Q Magazine as one of their “Top 40 under 40” as a premiere Corporate Keynote Speaker. He has appeared on America’s Got Talent and in feature films with actors such as School of Rock's Jack Black and Napoleon Dynamite's John Heder.
Get his book here: https://clintpulver.com/book/
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.

BizBooks: Christopher Mims

This conversation was with Christopher Mims, a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, about his new book Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy.
Christopher Mims writes Keywords, a weekly column on technology for The Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2014, he was the lead technology reporter for Quartz and has written on science and tech for publications ranging from Technology Review, Smithsonian, Wired, the Atlantic, Slate and other publications. Mims, who has degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University, lives in Baltimore.
Get his book here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims?variant=33080441274402
About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.