The ROI Podcast

Last week, we started a conversation with Carter Cast, author of "The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made & Unmade," clinical professor at the Kellogg School of Management, former Walmart.com CEO and Fortune 100 executive. On this episode, Cast discusses five personality archetypes that derail careers, plus he discusses three traits of highly successful leaders. Finally, he leaves us with a strategy for our own leadership development. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Have you noticed a person with all the right traits to become the next CEO or the next successful entrepreneur, yet they seem to fall short and never make it in their careers? Where did it all go wrong? What changed that stopped an upward career trajectory? Has this happened to you? On this episode, Idalene "Idie" Kesner, dean of the Kelley School of Business and the Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management, and ROI Podcast host Matt Martella talk with Carter Cast, author of "The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made - and Unmade." Cast is a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and he sits down with us to explore how to get back on track after a derailment in your career. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Last week, Brenda Bailey-Hughes and Tatiana Kolovou, Kelley School of Business senior lecturers in business communication and professional skills, discussed how influence and leadership go hand-in-hand, as trust becomes the glue holding these characteristics together. This week, we conclude this two-part series with real-world action steps to take to improve your own leadership skills today. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

There are many characteristics that describe a great leader - integrity, sound character, communicator, and the list goes on. There is one trait that stands above the rest: influential. One cannot become a leader if one does not influence others to follow. On this two-part series, we're unpacking how to become an influential leader with Kelley School of Business Senior Lecturers Brenda Bailey-Hughes and Tatiana Kolovou, who specialize in executive coaching and organizational communication. We unpack the three qualities of influential leadership and dive into how trust holds it all together. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

As the economy re-starts around the globe, organizational leaders are starting to look back and reflect on how to prepare for the future. Many are asking "what lessons can we learn to prepare for the next crisis?" On this episode, we're sitting down with co-founder and CEO of GrowthHit Jim Huffman, who is also the author of "The Growth Marketer's Playbook", to discuss how his organization managed through a 50% revenue loss in 48 hours while personally contracting the COVID-19 virus. We look back at his story with eyes focused on lessons we can all learn for the future. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

In the aftermath of COVID-19, many businesses struggle with their options. Should we file for bankruptcy? Should we lay off our staff? How are we going to bounce back? We recognize organizational leaders are currently wrestling with thoughts like these as we look toward the future. That's why we brought a crisis consultant who specializes in helping organizations, who are on the brink of going out of business, get back on track. On this episode, we're sitting down with the Senior Partner and Founder of Crain & Company Scott Maloney who weighs in with advice for such tough questions. ---- Discounted Consultation Service: https://craincompany.co/coronavirus Be sure to mention you heard about this from "Kelley's - The ROI Podcast" ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

As organizations around the country reopen their business, many leaders wrestle with how to recover their losses from COVID-19. As we all work to rebuild, it starts with embracing the right mindset. On this two-part series, we sat down with Kelley Professor of Business Law and Management Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow who shares what our mindset should be as the economy reopens. As we wrap up this series, this week we build our strategy to successfully reopen. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

As organizations around the country reopen their business, many leaders wrestle with how to recover their losses from COVID-19. As we all work to rebuild, it starts with embracing the right mindset. On this two-part series, we sat down with Kelley Professor of Business Law and Management Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow who shares what our mindset should be as the economy reopens. This will set the foundation for next week's episode where we continue to build a strategy for success. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

Last week, we started a conversation with the Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and former CEO of Cisco Systems, John Chambers, MBA'75, about his book "Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World". Part one was all about the right foundation needed before building your playbook on how to re-enter the market. On this week's episode, we conclude our two-part series with what organizational leaders need inside their plan so we all can re-open our businesses with confidence. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie

As many states begin opening their economies again, the slow crawl back to normality puts a major strain on all business owners. However, with the right mindset and winning strategy, your organization has an opportunity to become stronger than ever - even take the lead inside your industry - and we're going to show you how. On this first of a two-part series, we're sitting down with the former CEO of Cisco Systems and Author of "Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World" John Chambers, MBA'75, to explore the foundational leadership principles in his book which are necessary to enter the re-opening economy stronger as an organization. Then in part two, we will explore how to create your own playbook so your business can come out on top a winner. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/34637ie