Dreamers, Winners – And Making A Difference

By: Michael Friedlander
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  • Our show is about dreamers who have realized their dreams and who became winners as they made a difference for the better in the lives of those they touched.brbr For us, a “winner” is anyone who did so without giving up – and without cheating or acting unethically. Anyone, therefore, can be a “winner.” You don’t have to finish first or run a major company. You don’t need wealth or fame or a collection of toys. What you do need is to have realized your dreams and to have made a difference for the better in the lives of those you touch.brbr. On our show, we’ll have conversations with winners about what helped them become winners – and who helped them get there. We’ll also talk about other inspirational winners like Nelson Mandela. In doing so, we hope their insights will help you to realize your own dreams.
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Episodes
  • That Curiosity Thing: How a dose of ethics might avoid a sense of deja vu

    That Curiosity Thing: How a dose of ethics might avoid a sense of deja vu
    Feb 9 2015
    In this episode, we discuss with Professor Diane Swanson and Steve Burrows, CBE, the lessons we might have learned from the Enron, Madoff and Sub-Prime Mortgage adventures. We discuss the curious case of the MBA graduates and how they seemed to fail to protect us from the fallout of those adventures. Finally, we discuss the importance of curiosity and how a sense of ethics might prevent future similar adventures.
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    57 mins
  • That Corporate Responsibility Thing: Challenging the Executive Mind

    That Corporate Responsibility Thing: Challenging the Executive Mind
    Feb 2 2015
    Implementing a corporate responsibility program requires executives to embrace fundamental ethical concepts and to lead by example. They have to walk-the-walk as they talk-the-talk. Similarly, those they lead just buy into the goals and importance of the program. In a perfect world scenario, the business schools would prepare its students to embrace these types of programs and to help implement it both with ethical gusto and with the enthusiasm that comes with knowing they are doing the right thing. Professor Diane Swanson chairs the Business Ethics Education Initiative at Kansas State. Her latest book is entitled: Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture: Challenging the Executive Mind.
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    57 mins
  • That Ethics Thing: Going beyond those beautifully written codes

    That Ethics Thing: Going beyond those beautifully written codes
    Jan 26 2015
    Whether we are running a large or small business or whether we are dreaming of climbing a corporate ladder, we'll always find ourselves being confronted with difficult ethical questions. Sometimes, but not often, the answers might be find in a Code of Ethics. More often, we have to trust ourselves to do the right thing. Steve Burrows returns to our show to talk about his approach to ethics as the Executive Vice President of WSP, one of the worlds leading engineering professional services consulting firms that employs over 30,000 people. Steve is a winner who realized his dreams and who has made a difference for the better in the lives of those he's touched.
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    57 mins

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