David Fubini spent 35 years as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-founded the firm's global merger integration practice. He has advised on dozens of major transactions, including the deal that brought IBM's PC business to Lenovo. He started his career at Johnson & Johnson, where he was part of the team that launched Tylenol as a consumer brand. He now teaches at Harvard Business School and is the author of four books, including his latest, Post-Merger Integration, released

You've nailed the demo and the POV, and then procurement asks why they'd bet on you instead of CrowdStrike, Palo Alto or Zscaler. Robbie Tyrie has been the buyer on the other side of that question at some very large organisations, and he said yes to the startup more than once. He walks through the math he ran, what he wanted back from the vendor in return, and the trial structure he says a buyer can't argue with. Now a fractional CISO for 50 to 200 person companies, he also explains why buyer...

In part 1 of 2 about Dan's new book, "From CEO to Exit: The Ultimate Payday for Pest and Lawn Care Operators," he and Donnie discuss key exit planning concepts, including three gaps to consider: the wealth gap (difference between needed income and current assets), the value gap (improving multiples), and the price gap (potential versus current sale value). They also talk about misconceptions around multiples and understanding adjusted EBITDA. Hosts: Dan Gordon, PCO Bookkeepers & M&A

Your product roadmap can look perfect on paper while your engineering team quietly grinds to a halt. When that happens, the issue is rarely “lazy developers” or “bad attitudes” it’s usually overload, unclear priorities, and a business engineering communication gap that makes every request feel like an emergency. We sit down with Thanos Diacakis, a software leader with nearly 30 years of experience across startups and tech giants, to unpack what actually helps teams ship high-quality software...

David Turetsky interviews Gabriella Garcia, COO and Chief People Officer at Warp, about how AI is reshaping the build versus buy decision in HR and people operations. They dig into why this question is changing now, what guardrails matter for sensitive data, and why people leaders need to take a more strategic role in technology decisions.Gabby shares how her engineering background informs her view of modern people tech, while David adds real-world context from years of hacking together internal

Join us for another insightful episode with returning guest Dr. Lianne Lefsrud, a seasoned risk management expert and Risk, Innovation & Sustainability Chair (RISC) in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta. Following her previous episode on “Safety Through Design,” Dr. Lefsrud dives deeper into a systems approach to risk management, highlighting the importance of building safety into the system and recognizing how effective risk management can create capacity, strengthen

This is the audio-only version of our weekly supply chain talk show, SupplyChainTalk. Join us for free by visiting www.business-reporter.co.uk/supplychaintalk The panel discussion is titled: SupplyChainTalk: Maximising Uptime - How AI & asset visibility are transforming operations Using real-time operational data to identify issues earlier, reduce unplanned downtime and keep critical assets and equipment productiveUncovering underutilised equipment, reduce inefficiencies and make b...

Wanda J. Herndon shares how her commitment to telling the truth guided her through corporate PR, and how she navigated being stifled by “sure things” in old-guard companies before helping build Starbucks into a global brand. Her memoir, *Working Class to Breaking Glass*, connects leadership, belonging, and resilience.👤 About the GuestWanda J. Herndon is an award-winning communications executive, author, and trailblazer. Best known as Starbucks’ first SVP of global communications, she rose through

AI is making it faster and cheaper than ever to turn ideas into prototypes, products, and businesses—but that abundance creates new challenges for leaders. In episode 3 of a special four-part series on how AI is changing leadership, we look at the ways industry leaders are using AI to truly gain a competitive edge and innovate for the future. Cisco Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel explains how AI is changing the pace and nature of innovation, why human judgment and taste become more important when

In this episode of the Think Factory Podcast, Pratik Bhadra, CEO of North America at Netcore Cloud and Unboxed, discusses his journey from software engineering to leading businesses across public, private equity-backed, venture-backed, and bootstrapped companies. Pratik shares how taking strategic leaps of faith and applying first-principles thinking helped him navigate different industries, scale businesses, and adapt his leadership approach to changing stages of growth. He also discusses the

What does it take to build a handyman business that can grow beyond just you? In Episode #77 of the Handyman Success Podcast, I sit down with Dustin Fritschel of DIFY Handyman Services to talk about his journey in the handyman industry, building his business, the lessons he’s learned along the way, and what he’s doing to create a business that supports the life he wants to live. We get into the real side of running a handyman business—the wins, challenges, mindset shifts, systems, and decis...

A country of under three million people, 186,774 public contract awards and 21.89 billion euros over two years. Then the figure that decides whether it is worth bidding at all: three quarters of those contracts are under 25,000 euros, and together they carry seven per cent of the money. In this episode: 186,774 new contract awards worth 21.89 billion euros across 2024 and 2025, won by 17,195 distinct suppliers from 3,319 contracting authorities. Contracts between 5,000 and 25,000 euros ...

What does a pork chop sent back to the kitchen three times have to do with hiring your next CEO? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Rodney Morris, Executive Vice President at The Elliot Group and a former president of the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers, who has spent his whole career in the people business — twenty-five years on the human capital side of hospitality and twelve leading retained executive search. Rodney sees what companies say they want in a

In this episode of Front Cover: A Rough Notes Podcast on the Agency Intelligence Podcast Network, Jason Cass sits down with Linda Fisher, Founder of Cardinal Insurance Group, the agency featured on the October 2026 front cover of Rough Notes Magazine.Key Topics: Why taking care of the team comes before taking care of the client Moving from boss to leader and helping employees chase their own dreams Hiring lessons learned and why agencies should track the lifetime value of an

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your faith says one thing, but the way you live says something else? In this episode, Preston Poore and Ashley Smalley explore the tension between boldness and wisdom when it comes to living out your faith in the workplace. They unpack what it means to move beyond simply carrying a Christian label and allow faith to shape how you lead, treat people, make decisions, and respond under pressure. From Preston's 25-year journey of compartmentalizing his faith and...

Send us Fan Mail What if your AI screening tool is getting faster at finding candidates — but nobody has checked whether it’s finding the people who will actually perform well on the job? Hiring teams are facing an unprecedented volume problem: more applications, AI-written resumes, increasingly similar candidate profiles, and recruiters who simply don’t have enough time to evaluate every applicant manually. So companies are responding with faster screening technology. But speed doesn’t tell ...

Jon Cohen spent decades calling elections before founding an AI company built to fix his own industry.I sat down with Jon Cohen, founder and CEO of TrueDot.ai, who spent his career running polling at ABC News, the Washington Post, and Pew before becoming chief research officer at SurveyMonkey. We talk about why he never let himself get promoted out of the actual work, what it felt like calling presidential elections on deadline, and why he thinks executive fit depends on leaders getting

The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is the standard measure of how concentrated a market is. Applied to published public procurement data without cleaning it first, it gives an answer that is wrong by a factor of nearly three. In this episode: Amendments to contracts already awarded carry 57.6 per cent of the published value in the Lithuanian contract data for 2024 and 2025. Separating them moves the concentration index from 106.9 to 38.3, while the number of distinct winners barely moves, b...

Start with our free behavioral assessment. Go to trypi.com/ltp .AI transformation isn’t just a technology problem; it’s a management problem. Executives want faster adoption, employees are wondering what AI means for their jobs, and managers are stuck in the middle trying to turn all that uncertainty into something their teams can actually work with.Matt Poepsel sits down with Joel Pipher, who leads AI transformation at The Predictive Index, to unpack what it takes to grow with AI without

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