Improv-ing Business

Hosted by Rick Norris and Brandon Norris

If only there was a perfect formula or rule book for running a small business or managing your personal finances. The reality is that most of us are making day-to-day decisions based on common sense and what seems right in a very complex and fast-paced world. On Improv-ing Business, Rick and Brandon introduce tools and tips for personal and business finances through a lens of story-telling and comedy improv. Tune in each week and keep your balance sheet in check by growing new products, finding new markets and serving your customers. Improv-ing Business, where business and personal finances take a front row seat.

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Episode #25 Global Business and Italian Speeding Tickets Podcast Episode

Are you thinking of expanding your small or mid-sized business overseas? Is this excitement overshadowed by the anxiety of not knowing how to begin? Do due diligence, local customs and procedures puzzle you on realizing this dream? Join Rick and Brandon to learn about the Italian Autostrada “culture” and how this helps you to expand … Continue reading Episode #25 Global Business and Italian Speeding Tickets

Episode #24 Fulfilling Your Passion by Creating a Non-profit Business Podcast Episode

Do you have a passion to do charitable work? Have you thought of creating a non-profit to make the world a little bit better? Have you been asked to volunteer or participate on a board of directors of a non-profit? Today, we will be addressing this aspect of our society and some advice to starting … Continue reading Episode #24 Fulfilling Your Passion by Creating a Non-profit Business

Episode #23 The 1928 Great American (Transcontinental) Footrace and Your Opportunities Podcast Episode

Do business or career opportunities present themselves to you? Do you wonder if you are making the right decision in choosing one opportunity over another? Wouldn’t you like a set of rules that can will you choose the right opportunity? Join Rick and Brandon as they examine the opportunity costs that their ancestor Louis Alfano … Continue reading Episode #23 The 1928 Great American (Transcontinental) Footrace and Your Opportunities

Episode #22 In a Company’s Strategic Culture, Where there’s Smoke, there’s Fire! (But what if you can’t see the smoke?) Podcast Episode

Employee resistance is the most common reason executives (and small business owners) cite for the failure of organizational change. Strong, respected change leaders i.e., people with informal influences, is needed to convince employees about the value of a new business strategy. Your effort to convince those who can influence others may create cultural change, allowing … Continue reading Episode #22 In a Company’s Strategic Culture, Where there’s Smoke, there’s Fire! (But what if you can’t see the smoke?)

Episode #21 Getting Your Marketing And Sales Teams Off The Rocks Podcast Episode

Weather large, mid-sized or small, many companies handicap themselves by doing the same ineffective things over and over. They run their Marketing and Sales teams like tires spinning on wet sand and rock. Worse off, these teams sometimes drive towards different horizons in their visions creating a very disjointed company. Join Brandon and Rick as … Continue reading Episode #21 Getting Your Marketing And Sales Teams Off The Rocks

Episode #20 Leadership (Part 2): How to Develop Your Employees (“Co-workers”) to Enact Your Vision Podcast Episode

Have you been frustrated trying to lead your employees or co-workers? Does your vision seem to fizzle once it leaves the drawing board? Join Brandon and Rick for the second half of “Leadership” where they tell the story of Paul Orfalea of Kinkos and his effective method of training his co-workers. Learn some tips exposed … Continue reading Episode #20 Leadership (Part 2): How to Develop Your Employees (“Co-workers”) to Enact Your Vision

Episode #19 Leadership (Part 1): Avoiding the 4 Horsemen of Bad Strategy Podcast Episode

Do you have trouble leading your employees or co-workers to execute your vision? Does your strategy seem to fall on deaf ears? Join Brandon and Rick as they discuss Richard Rumelt’s Good Strategy/Bad Strategy book in light of a story about Notre Dame’s legendary football coach Knute Rockne and his four horsemen of the apocalypse. … Continue reading Episode #19 Leadership (Part 1): Avoiding the 4 Horsemen of Bad Strategy

Episode #18 Watch Out For The Run – Away Credit On First And Hill !! Podcast Episode

Have you maxed out your credit cards? Are you paying the minimum for each credit card each month? Are you financially in “over your head” without a strategy to relieve the pressure? Join Rick and Brandon as they draw analogies between run-away credit and a run-away car. Learn some tips on reducing that nagging credit … Continue reading Episode #18 Watch Out For The Run – Away Credit On First And Hill !!

Episode #17 Shaking Up Your Business and Community with Social Change Podcast Episode

Have you felt that there is more to life than just working? Today Rick and Brandon take a broader view of business by looking at its role in fostering social change in both the community and the world. Their stories explore how the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s enacted change by addressing consumer demands, how … Continue reading Episode #17 Shaking Up Your Business and Community with Social Change

Episode #16 Gerber’s E-Myth and the Rising Dough of a Rectangular Pizza Podcast Episode

Has your passion turned into a job? Do you regret opening a business that has taken away your life? Michael Gerber’s book, the E-Myth, discusses such feelings and offers remedies. Join Brandon and Rick as they use Gerber’s book and look inside the mind of the small/mid-sized business owner by telling the story of their … Continue reading Episode #16 Gerber’s E-Myth and the Rising Dough of a Rectangular Pizza

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