Bo Burlingham has spent 33 years at Inc., as senior editor, then executive editor, then editor-at-large. He now writes about entrepreneurship at Forbes.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- Bo’s career at Inc. and Forbes
- Bo’s best small companies in America list at Forbes
- Great companies vs large companies and human scale vs financial scale
- Bo’s book “Small Giants” about companies with mojo
- What’s in the new 10th anniversary edition of “Small Giants”
- What makes great businesses fail
- The tough situations that arise when the financials aren’t there
- “The Great Game of Business” that Bo wrote with Jack Stack
- Why everyone needs to understand what’s going on inside your company
- “A Stake in the Outcome”: Bo and Jack Stack’s “The Great Game of Business” follow up
- What you need to think about when giving employees stock
- “Street Smarts”: Bo’s book he wrote with Norm Brodsky
- “Finish Big”: Bo’s book about selling and exiting companies
- The phases of building, growing, and exiting companies
- Why 70% of people who sell their business are miserable
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