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One Take CEO InterviewsCEO Jeff Kiesel on Leading Restaurant Technologies Inc. During and Out of COVID-19During this unrehearsed, unedited interview, Restaurant Technologies Inc. (RTI) CEO Jeff Kiesel shares how his business overcame significant COVID-19-related challenges and along the way, improved its go-to-market strategy and how it takes care of its 10 largest clients. It also consolidated/simplified its IT systems and centralized administrative work. When COVID first affected RTI’s business, it furloughed 250 people. All but 7 have since returned to work (five retired), plus another 350 have been hired during 2021 and dozens more a month are expected to be added through December.
RTI delivers new and recovers used cooking oil for more than 30,000 re...2021-11-1923 minOne Take CEO InterviewsDoug Jaeger on Buying a Canadian Company During a Pandemic, Employing Talent Where it Lives, Using Mixed-Reality Smartglasses for Site Visits & MoreJaeger's company Ulteig recently acquired a Canadian business without visiting it due to Covide-19 travel restrictions. This after Ulteig grew 20 percent a year for five consecutive years and expanded from 300 to 700 employees.
One of several fascinating takeaways from this One Take CEO Interview is how Jaeger maintains a healthy corporate culture regardless of where employees may now be working. He also plans to locate collaboration centers or small offices where the best talent can be found, rather than requiring talent to move to an existing Ulteig office. And he says, what his company achieved during the last 12 m...2021-09-1523 minOne Take CEO InterviewsCEO Christine Lantinen on how Maud Borup Grew Sales 50 percent While Fighting a PandemicOne year after her first One Take interview, Christine Lantinen returns to discuss how Maud Borup weathered the pandemic; how its attracting and retaining talent both in the Twin Cities and Le Center, Minn.; why it's looking to expand capacity yet again after just adding 70,000 square feet last year; whether employees are required to work at the corporate office; and more.
Lantinen is owner and CEO of Maud Borup, a candy and gourmet foods maker with nearly 40 million dollars in annual sales, which is up almost 50 percent from a year ago, and more than 200 employees, double from...2021-09-0229 min
One Take CEO InterviewsCEO Chuck Runyon on How Self Esteem Brands Made its Largest Acquisition in History While Fighting a PandemicSelf Esteem Brands (SEB) recently completed its largest acquisition in history despite all the challenges and uncertainty brought on by COVID-19. One year after his first One Take interview, co-founder and CEO Chuck Runyon returns for a “Take Two” to share how and why the acquisition was able to happen. He also discusses how his company helped franchisees since the pandemic began (and looming cost increases once rent abatements or deferrals end); the introduction of a bill to provide financial relief to the gym and fitness industry (the Gyms Act); whether employees will be coming back to work full time...2021-08-1923 minOne Take CEO InterviewsCEO Nick Elders on how his startup facilitated $7 billion in loans within two weeksNick is CEO of Ignify Technologies, an early stage fintech company whose SPARK loan origination platform facilitated 50,000 SBA loans worth $7 billion in two weeks last year. Those loans in turn helped save 500,000 jobs. During this One Take CEO Interview presented by Platinum Group, he explains how the company quickly scaled up to meet demand, how it plans to grow and how it does so well attracting and retaining talent—something its top three leaders spend 30-40 percent of their time doing. Ignify is a public benefit corporation, spun out from Minneapolis-based Community Reinvestment Fund USA in 2020.
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Platinum Group Interview SeriesHow to Attract and Retain Great TalentThree business leaders discuss how their organizations and clients are attracting and retaining great talent while others find it in short supply. Along the way, they lay out the blueprint for what any of us should think about when looking for our next best hire -- or our next career opportunity.
Recorded in front of a live audience on May 4, 2021, this panel discussion taps the collective insights of panelists...
Bill English, president and CEO, Accurate Home Care, Otsego, Minn.;
David Magy, principal and co-founder, Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates, Wayzata, Minn.; and
Rick...2021-05-131h 00One Take CEO InterviewsPinnacle Performance Group CEO Leslie Holman on the Importance of Front Line Employees, and MoreIn this One Take CEO Interview presented by Platinum Group, Leslie Holman, owner and CEO of Pinnacle Performance Group, discusses how her firm helps fill the gap that can often exist between front line employees and senior leadership, and how COVID-19 has helped narrow this gap.
In companies of all sizes, she says, “there is that common thread that success is bred through employees at all levels, and it's often that front line employee who has not been heard or listened to, or often sadly, not respected enough when it comes to how critically important they are in...2021-04-2916 minOne Take CEO InterviewsBushel Boy President Chuck Tryon on Growing Beyond TomatoesOwatonna, Minn.-based Bushel Boy is well known in Minnesota for first perfecting indoor grown, vine-ripened tomatoes available in local grocery stores year-round 41 years ago. Competition has increased rapidly in recent years, leading the company to both expand production and explore other crops to produce indoors, beginning with strawberries.
Chuck Tryon was hired as Bushel Boy’s president last October to expand upon these efforts. In this One Take CEO Interview (watch here), he explains how he plans to do this, and how he addressed COVID-19-related challenges including potential delays on the company’s $35 million, 50-acre expa...2021-04-1413 minOne Take CEO InterviewsHow Claire Ferrara Led Through a Covid-19 Triple WhammyOne of the most challenging aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic as it hit last year was how to still service heating and air conditioning systems in peoples’ homes. How could shelter in place, work from home and remote learning all remain safe with an outsider coming into the house? And how could a repair person be assured he or she wouldn’t catch Covid while in someone’s home?
There were only a few of the challenges needing to be addressed by Claire Ferrara, president and majority owner of Minneapolis-based Standard Heating and Air Conditioning, a fourth-generation family...2021-03-1819 minOne Take CEO InterviewsBetsy Niemeier on Leading a Steel Fabrication Business During Covid-19During this One Take CEO Interview presented by Platinum Group, Co-Owner and President of M&N Structures Betsy Niemeier shares how she has dealt with all the challenges thrown her way recently, including Covid-19, another surge in steel prices, delays in vendor delivery time and political polarization in the workplace.
One Take CEO Interviews are produced by award-winning journalist Dale Kurschner, who today serves as a strategic analyst and advisor with Platinum Group, Minnesota's most experienced firm helping businesses facing extreme challenges ranging from rapid growth and acquisitions, to turnarounds, divestitures, ownership/leadership transitions and crises.
2021-02-1824 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take CEO Interview with Xcel Energy's Ben FowkeXcel Energy Chairman and CEO Ben Fowke talks about a wide range of issues during this interview including how the utility is investing so much in carbon-free energy production while keeping rates comparable or lower than its peers. With about half of his workforce working remotely, Fowke shares what he’s doing to keep morale up and accelerate innovation even when people cannot collaborate together. He also discusses how the company is addressing racial issues elevated by George Floyd’s death, the sense amongst many that downtown Minneapolis is no longer a safe place to work, and his greatest chal...2021-02-0322 minOne Take CEO InterviewsHow HR-Tech Firm When I Work is Growing Despite Covid-19’s ImpactImagine having about half of your revenues tied to serving the restaurant and hospitality industries last year... How would you have dealt with Covid-19-related temporary closures and ongoing restrictions in those industries, the plunge in their revenues and the potential harm to yours?
Chad Halvorson and his leadership team had to deal with that challenge, and more, during 2020 and he talks about it all in this week’s One Take CEO Interview.
Halvorson is founder, chairman and chief experience officer of the Minneapolis-based HR-technology firm When I Work. His 10-year-old business provides a unique emp...2021-01-2126 minOne Take CEO InterviewsHow NetSPI is Growing Despite Covid-19, PLUS 3 Things to Do Now to Protect Your DataCybersecurity business leader Aaron Shilts discusses how he is leading his employees through the stresses and changes brought on by Covid-19, organic growth and a recent acquisition. He also shares three things your business should do if it hasn’t already done so to avoid a devastating cyberattack.
Shilts is president and COO of Minneapolis-based NetSPI, the industry leader in enterprise security testing and vulnerability management. NetSPI works with eight of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the world’s five largest health care companies and the largest cloud providers. In December, it acquired Utah-based Silent Brea...2021-01-0519 minOne Take CEO InterviewsHow Rihm Family Companies’ Kari Rihm led During 2020Kari Rihm discusses everything from quickly fixing ‘leaking pipes’ and adjusting to market demands, to soul searching for hidden bias and getting others to care more about people they don’t know during this 20th episode of One Take CEO Interviews.
She is owner, president and CEO of South St. Paul-based Rihm Family Companies (RFC), a fourth-generation family-owned business that employs more than 350 people in 21 locations. RFC is comprised of Rihm Kenworth, the world’s second oldest continuously operated Rihm Kenworth truck dealership, and three related businesses providing genuine and aftermarket truck parts and accessories, truck rental and leas...2020-12-2233 minOne Take CEO InterviewsKyle Kottke on How His Trucking Business is Navigating the Covid-19 EconomyKottke Trucking Co. Co-Owner and CEO Kyle Kottke shares how his Buffalo Lake, MN-based trucking business has adapted in many ways since Covid-19 began to affect the economy back in March. This includes helping truckers find places to stop for gas and to stay overnight, when most locations shut down during the late spring months; and quickly adapting to a major drop in long-term business and demand for spot-contract service, to then moving back toward long-term. Kottke Trucking is a third-generation family business with about 260 employees and operations in Minnesota and Florida.
About One Take CEO Interviews...2020-12-0221 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesHow to Avoid Bankruptcy, and If Too Late, How Best to ProceedPerspectives and advice from three experts who collectively have been there/done this 100+times.
This panel discussion with three veterans of business workouts and bankruptcies delves into how best to avoid having to file, and if unavoidable, what to do to come out of the process as well as possible. Our panelists are:
Pat Brennan, a partner at Platinum Group in Minnetonka, MN. Pat is a seasoned business executive with a strong track record of success working in a diversity of environments, including distribution, manufacturing, service and banking. He leads financial restructurings and excels in...2020-12-0100 minOne Take CEO InterviewsTastefully Simple CEO Jill Blashak Strahan on Lessons Learned from Quick Success, 7 Years of Losses & Returning to ProfitabilityDuring this week’s One Take CEO Interview, Tastefully Simple Founder and CEO Jill Blashak Strahan discusses what it was like to grow her 1995 startup into a $143 million-a-year business, and then lead through seven consecutive years of losses running into this year, when Covid-19 hit. Ironically, those bad times forced her organization to return to being scrappy like a startup: lean, creative and agile—must-have traits for most businesses looking to grow this year.
“We ran though about $32 million in reserves...My turnaround advisors said, ‘too bad you had reserves because you know, you might have done somethin...2020-11-1728 minOne Take CEO InterviewsNorthern Ingredients CEO Robert Schafer on Placing Workplace Culture Before ProfitFounder and CEO Bob Schafer created a highly successful bakery supply business from scratch all from operating cash flow; no debt. Mixing and/or distributing 150 million pounds a year of ingredients to food manufacturers, this Minnesota Family Business Award-winning company has weathered three recessions since its founding in 1991. Thus far it is handing the Covid-19 recession well by adapting to the times, while also protecting its values. This includes how it pivoted to handle new business without hiring more people.
Schafer discusses this and more in this interview, shot on location at Northland Ingredients in Arden Hills, M...2020-11-1023 minOne Take CEO InterviewsRefinance if Your Rates Are High, Think Outside the Box & Go Ahead and Be Stressed SometimesThis week’s One Take CEO Interview is with Aleesha Webb, vice chair and president of Blaine, MN-based Village Bank. Her second-generation family owned community bank has 69 employees, about $390 million in assets under management and offices in Blaine, East Bethel, Ramsey and St. Francis, MN.
Webb advises business owners to take advantage of low interest rates if they haven’t done so already, and to be strategic while thinking outside the box. Amongst her clients, “there’s this 70-plus year old man that's been in investment real estate forever and this budding entrepreneur a woman that decided to be an...2020-11-0219 minOne Take CEO InterviewsLeading Stressed Employees & How Best (Including Legally) to Bring Some Back to the OfficeKey points on how to safely bring employees back to the office (do you have a detailed COVID-19 Preparedness Plan?); what's trending when it comes to renegotiating contracts with landlords, vendors or customers; and fresh perspective on leading through this period of increased stress when employees and customers snap at things they wouldn't have a year ago. These issues and more are explored in this week's One Take CEO Interview with Jim Snoxell of the law firm Henningson & Snoxell.
One Take CEO Interviews candidly explore how Minnesota CEOs are leading during the Covid-19 pandemic and it's unprecedented...2020-10-2719 minOne Take CEO InterviewsWhat's Working Best in Digital MarketingLiz Diedrich, founder and CEO of Diedrich RPM (research propelled marketing), provides a variety of helpful perspectives in this week’s One Take CEO Interviews.
One pertains to what’s working best in marketing today. “We’re seeing very dramatic shifts in terms of what is working digitally: Retargeting—the ads that follow you around— has produced huge conversions in of all things hospitality,” she says. “The lesson here is to not give up, to be agile, look at what’s happening and test things.”
Another observation: “Get out there and talk with other people that have your best in...2020-10-2017 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take CEO Interview with Mathnasium Franchisee Bobby TarnowskiCovid-19 related restrictions are forcing many businesses owners to contemplate raising prices, yet doing so can hurt sales. Better options, says Bobby Tarnowski, are to create new types of product or service offerings, provide financing to those who cannot afford to pay for things outright, and try new and unique ways of marketing. Such constructive problem solving makes sense given he's a math enthusiast who owns a 10-location, 65-employee Mathnasium franchise in the Twin Cities. Tarnowski shares these ideas and more during this week’s One Take CEO Interviews. [One of his creative ways of marketing is to ask bu...2020-10-1214 minOne Take CEO InterviewsHow to Deal with Differing Perceptions of Covid-19?Covid-19 has created two worlds; those who are extremely concerned about catching Covid-19 and those who don't understand why businesses and other aspects of "normal life" aren't more open. In this segment of One Take CEO Interviews, Chad Nesbit of the business insurance firm Nesbit Agencies shares how his firm and some of his clients are dealing with this dilemma. He also shares how they're dealing with the inability to have those crucial, face-to-face meetings.
One Take CEO Interviews are objective, unscripted, unedited discussions on how Minnesota CEOs are leading during the Covid-19 pandemic and its unprecedented...2020-10-0719 minOne Take CEO InterviewsIncreasing Sales During Covid-19: A One Take CEO Interview with Gary Braun of Pivotal AdvisorsBraun is CEO and co-owner with brother Mike of Pivotal Advisors, a Prior Lake, Minn.-based firm that helps organizations improve their sales results. In this interview he shares what the two of them learned the hard way while growing sales from thousands to hundreds of millions at various companies before starting their own firm during the Great Recession.
Each “One Take" interview is spontaneous and recorded in one take with no edits. The series is sponsored by the Platinum Group, the Upper Midwest's most experienced advisory firm helping businesses through challenging times including restructurings, recapitalizations, reorganizations, div...2020-09-2213 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group's Founder Dean Bachelor on Why 'Meaningful Capitalism' is More Pertinent Than EverPlatinum Group Founder and Chairman Dean Bachelor not only coined this phrase many years ago, he wrote a mission statement that received trademark protection. His firm has lived by it ever since, and as a result has saved more than 100 businesses and several thousands jobs. In this short video and podcast interview, Bachelor explains what it is and why business owners and leaders should be even more mindful of it in the months ahead. 2020-08-1317 minOne Take CEO InterviewsTime to Start Planning for Post-Covid, says Reviva Corp.'s Dave GoodwinWhat needs to be addressed today to ensure American enterprise will still lead the world after Covid-19 subsides? In this One Take CEO Interview, Reviva Corp.'s Dave Goodwin shares his thoughts, including the need to improve what's being taught by our colleges and universities. Goodwin also explains how his company has continued to run at full-speed this year despite the disruptions caused by Covid-19.
About One Take CEO Interviews: Minnesota CEOs share their take on how best to lead during the Covid-19 pandemic and it's unprecedented impact on their operations, and the economy. Each interview is r...2020-08-1314 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take CEO Interview with Eric Gibson of Indigo SignworksGibson runs Indigo Signworks, a substantial sign manufacturing, installation and servicing business with locations in North Dakota and Minnesota. In this interview he shares his take on how best to lead employees in multiple locations during the Covid-19 pandemic and it's unprecedented impact on people, businesses and the ability to plan. Each "One Take" interview is spontaneous and recorded in one take with no edits.
One Take CEO Interviews are sponsored by the Platinum Group, the Upper Midwest's most experienced advisory firm helping businesses through challenging times including restructurings, recapitalizations, reorganizations, divestitures, acquisitions and crises. The interviews...2020-08-0522 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group's Tom Hubler on the importance of planning and communicating, especially for family businessesThis series of interviews with key members of Platinum Group – Minnesota’s most experienced advisory group helping business owners and leaders with extreme challenges including financial setbacks, lender and landlord re-negotiations, turnarounds and bankruptcies – is produced by one of its consultants and former multi-award winning editor, writer and interviewer Dale Kurschner.2020-08-0526 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group's Greg Coward on Why Change Needs to Happen Now, and Plans Need to be WeeklyGreg Coward is a former product marketing executive who’s gone on to serve as CEO of a dozen industrial B2B manufacturing and consumer goods companies. He also has owned two businesses and led through many turnaround and other rapid-change situations.
In this Platinum Group interview (also available to watch on YouTube), Coward says the greatest risk for any business today is waiting. He also talks about how he's quickly assessed situations as an interim CEO brought into companies that needed turning around, and how he's ignored lawyers' advice at times when it's been at odds wi...2020-07-2919 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take CEO Interview with Manny Villafana, Legendary Medtech Pioneer & CEO of Medical 21Villafana started several successful medtech companies including Cardiac Pacemakers Inc., which revolutionized the pacemaker industry by making the device smaller and longer lasting. He's taken seven companies public and he's at it yet again with Medical 21. In this interview he shares his take on how best to lead during the Covid-19 pandemic and it's unprecedented impact on people, businesses, the ability to raise capital and the overall economy. Each "One Take" interview is recorded in one take with no edits.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dale-kurschner/support2020-07-2823 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesWhy Now's the Time to Try New Things, Maybe Even a New Business PartnerGiven today's Covid-19 recession, Platinum Group's Steve Coleman says there are those businesses that are pausing and being conservative, and then, "there's a significant minority of owners that we serve who have very alertly said, 'wow, this is so enormous of a changing environment that there have to be some new opportunities that these disruptions bring to us. New opportunities I better be looking for. 'And so they have leaned forward. They are not being silent. They're not looking down. They're looking up and they're looking out."
During this short unedited, one-take interview, he explains how...2020-07-1024 minOne Take CEO InterviewsAllina Health CEO Penny Wheeler on Caring for People During Covid-19, Riots and an Uncertain EconomyDuring this week’s One Take CEO Interview, President and CEO Penny Wheeler discusses how she’s leading $4 billion health care provider Allina Health during Covid-19, how Allina survived fires and looting last month that damaged or destroyed most neighboring properties, and how she and her employees look to effect meaningful change while facing an unpredictable future.
One Take CEO Interviews consist of one Minnesota CEO sharing his or her take on how best to lead during the Covid-19 pandemic and it's unprecedented impact on their operations, and the economy. Each interview is recorded in one take with...2020-07-1032 minOne Take CEO InterviewsProviding Normalcy is Purpose in Today's Economy, says Mainstreet Bakery's Stacy Demskie"Our vision is so important right now: where we wanted to take this company before [Covid-19] and how we wanted everyone to be successful in it by coming to work every day and working as a team. We still want that success, and I think that is easy to be lost in the fear right now,” Demskie says during this week's One Take interview. “Just having the normalcy of getting up in the morning and going to work. That’s what we do best. That’s what we know. And being able to to give that to employees is really i...2020-06-2619 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesEnsure You're Providing Adequate Benefits Relative to the Times, says Platinum Group's Bill English"Take a look at how you define who gets on your benefits role. You may be a company where you're only operating at 50 percent capacity and that doesn't allow most of your employees to participate in your benefits," Platinum Group Partner Bill English says during this short interview. "Run a cash flow analysis of your benefits costs, and whether at 50% whether you can afford to lower some of your benefits thresholds to make sure those employees are taken care of. If not they may find full time elsewhere."2020-06-2620 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesHow best to prepare should an economic tsunami hit later this yearDuring this brief one-on-one interview, Platinum Group Partner Pat Brennan discusses the need to prepare for this possibility after the upcoming presidential election. He also shares what he's seen as the number one issue that tripped up the dozens of companies he's helped over the years after they fell into financial or operational disarray.2020-06-1816 minOne Take CEO InterviewsSummit Brewing Founder Mark Stutrud re. Covid-19's Impact on Craft Brewing & How He's RespondingDuring this One Take CEO Interview, Mark shares what he's seeing in the industry, how he believes restaurants and bars will operate for the foreseeable future, and how Summit Brewing responded, and is moving forward, in the Covid-19 economy. Mark also shares lessons learned in other extremely challenging situations since founding Summit in 1986.
One Take CEO Interviews are independently produced, unedited one-on-one discussions between a business leader and former Twin Cities Business Editor in Chief Dale Kurschner. This interview is sponsored by the Platinum Group, which for 40 years has served as Minnesota's best resource for helping businesses s...2020-06-1831 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take CEO Interview with Restaurant Technologies' Jeff KieselIn this week’s One Take CEO Interview podcast, Restaurant Technologies chief Jeff Kiesel shares how his business prepared for and then adjusted to a drop in business due to Covid-19 shutdowns.
His Mendota Heights, MN-based company is the nation's most efficient fry-oil business, providing everything from fresh oil appropriate for what's being fried, to equipment in the kitchen that dispenses new oil and then collects used oil. Its 1,000+ employees serve the food service, restaurant and hospitality industries that have been hit hard since mid-March.
Kiesel explains how the company was able to minimize the lev...2020-06-1118 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group's Bob Stewart on the Importance of Good Bank Relations, Corporate Governance & Financial ReportingBob Stewart is an attorney, CPA, business manager and an entrepreneur with experience in several industries across several subjects ranging from international business and turnarounds to serving in the roles of interim manager, corporate oversight, general counsel and consulting advisor. He's been with the Platinum Group for 15 years and specializes in strategy and turnaround assistance, transitions especially on the south side of matters, and corporate governance leadership.
In this short one take (unedited) interview, Bob covers several important topics including communication and the need for leaders to be decisive.
"Communication is so vitally important. You...2020-06-1018 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group's Randy Kroll on Communicating and Listening During Covid-19Tip #1: Call business acquaintances to ask how they're doing and what they've experienced the last few months, and learn from it, says Platinum Group Partner Randy Kroll. A CPA with 40 years of experience specializing in in the areas of financial services, manufacturing and nonprofits, Kroll also has extensive leadership experience . He brings all of this to bare when helping Platinum Group clients with transition planning, strategic direction, talent management and interpreting their financial statements, particularly during periods of turnarounds and economic turbulence. He provides some tips and helpful suggestions to business leaders in this brief interview recorded in one...2020-06-0417 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take CEO Interview with Christine Lantinen, Owner of Maud BorupMaud Borup owner Christine Lantinen discusses how her business is re-orientating production and marketing while wrapping up a $6 million expansion of its production facility in Le Center, MN. And she talks about the importance of finding a way to constructively deal with the emotional toll Covid-19 is having on everyone, including business leaders. (This interview was conducted on May 20, 2020).
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dale-kurschner/support2020-06-0417 minOne Take CEO InterviewsAnytime Fitness Chief Chuck Runyon Re. Covid-19's Impact on 5,000 Franchisees, & the FutureDuring a work-from-home Zoom interview, Self Esteem Brands co-founder and CEO Chuck Runyon discusses what his team has done to help 5,000 franchise owners deal with everything from negotiating rent deferrals and abatements to reopening safely. He talks about the value of culture and decentralized decision making. And the talks about the future for the world’s all time fastest growing franchise company, as ranked by Inc. magazine.
This is a One Take CEO Interview with no edits. The video version is available on YouTube, and more about Runyon can be found at MNPerspectives.com.
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Support thi...2020-05-2815 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group's Robert Lehmann: Real Estate Negotiations during Covid-19An attorney who's worked just about every type and size real estate project possible during the last 35 years, Robert Lehmann shares insights and tips for anyone dealing with property today--especially tenants and landlords.2020-05-2810 minPlatinum Group Interview SeriesPlatinum Group Founder Dean Bachelor on Leading During Covid-19Dean Bachelor founded Platinum Group as a turnaround firm nearly 40 years ago. Since then he's seen an awful lot while helping more than 2,000 business owners and leaders save their businesses. In this podcast with Dale Kurschner, he talks about what's most important to focus on now.
(Given work-from-home requirements, this interview was conducted over Zoom. The video version is available here.)2020-05-2321 minOne Take CEO InterviewsOne Take Interview with Paul Grangaard, Chair & CEO, Faribault Woolen MillsThis is the first in a series of recorded-via-Zoom CEO interviews during the weeks in which Minnesotans were required to work from home in order to avoid catching the new, most deadly-yet version of the Coronavirus dubbed Covid-19.
It's one CEO's take on how best to move forward, and it's a one-take recording with no edits. It's a frank conversation during which Paul talks about how today's Covid-19 economy compares with situations ranging from from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of hostile takeovers, to 9-11 and the Great Recession. He shares how Faribault...2020-05-2113 min