Ron and Ed welcome patent attorney and advocate for abolishing intellectual property, Stehan Kinsella to the show. We will explore what is (and is not) intellectual property and then have a conversation about why Stephan thinks these forms of property should not exist and why the world would be better if they did not. If you have any questions that you would like Ed and Ron to ask Stephan, please shoot us an email at asktsoe@verasage.com or hit us up on Twitter at @asktsoe.
Mar 24, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In his book, The Cloud Revolution, Mark P. MIlls explains how the conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong and lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what’s really coming. According to Mark, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the “Roaring 2020s.” It will come not from any single big invention, but from the confluence of radical advances in three primary t...
Mar 17, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed once again take the show on the road. For the third time, they are honored to appear at the Meeting of the Minds. Aside from taking questions from the attendees, they will have a conversation about an Harvard Business Review article from Joe Pine et al entitled, The “New You” Business. - https://hbr.org/2022/01/the-new-you-business
Mar 10, 2023•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Inspired by A. J. Jacobs when he appeared on Russ Robert's great podcast EconTalk (and Curly from City Slickers), Ron and Ed have each been keeping a One Thing journal for the last few years. They first shared from this journal back in October 2021, but the time has come to share some more of their best One Things. If you tweet your one things, be sure to include #asktsoe and #OneThing.
Mar 03, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ed and Ron are honored to welcome Natasha Lance Rogoff to The Soul of Enterprise. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western idealistic values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be. In Muppets in Moscow, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings the story to life. Lance Rogoff, a young A...
Feb 24, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rock climbers call certain boulders “problems” and the toughest part “the crux.” Richard Rumelt, in his new book The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists, uses this term to describe a three-part strategic skill: 1) judgment about what is important and what’s secondary; 2) judgment about the difficulties of dealing with these issues; and 3) being able to focus. Join Ed and Ron as they discuss the essentials of strategy.
Feb 17, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ed and Ron are honored to have Dr. David D. Alfery on the show. He is the author of Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between. We loved this book, because it will resonate with any professional. From the Introduction: “Many individuals, of course, have professions in which they are privileged to interact with others and to profoundly affect their lives. I was fortunate to be one of them. For all good doctors, the kind you want looking after you...
Feb 10, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed are overjoyed to bring back to The Soul of Enterprise Dr. Kimberlee Josephson, associate professor of business at Lebanon Valley College, to talk about some of her more recent work on reputation vs regulation, why work won't love you back, and an update on her thoughts about the ESG movement. If you have questions, please feel free to send them in to asktsoe@verasage.com.
Feb 03, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ed and Ron are honored to host Dr. Jay Baruch, author of Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER. When a patient comes into the hospital with cardiac arrest or a compound fracture, doctors know what to do. The problem is evident, and the solution is practically algorithmic. Dr. Baruch contends that the biggest challenge and the biggest part of an ER doctor’s work is often caring for people who come in with not just problems with their body, but also socia...
Jan 27, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Vanover is a founder of AuditClub, a group of former audit partners with a unique and valuable mix of Big 4, regional, and local firm experience. AuditClub provides flexible access to a seasoned team of Chief Auditors and specialists who bring more than 100 years of combined professional experience to their CPA Firm members, helping each of them succeed through better focus, better quality, and better results. They have a unique set of elements in their subscription pricing model.
Jan 20, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast An annual favorite going back to 2015, Ron and Ed talked about the best books they read each year. Sometimes there is overlap, other times none. (I suspect overlap this year!) Let’s start with a quote: “One must always be careful of books, said Tessa, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ? Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Jan 13, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of two recap shows we do each year (the other will be next week's Best Books of 2022), Ron and Ed will take a look back at trends (business and otherwise), highlights, and lowlights from the year just past. We will review our favorite shows as well as the fan favorites and pay homage (or disparage when appropriate) those who crossed to the other side of the river in 2022.
Jan 06, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed were thrilled to have one of their favorite guests back for a fifth time on the show, Fr. Robert Sirico of The Acton Institute. He along with Rabbi Lapin inspired the name of our show. This time we will discuss his new book The Economics of the Parables.
Dec 30, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast It is December 24th, the busiest day for the North Pole and wouldn't you know it but a worldwide taxing authority has decided that today is the day to conduct Santa's Audit. For Peter Jackson's Get Back! We snuck our TSOE microphones in on the conversation between the auditor and Santa's head accounting elf. What you are about to hear is the edited audio. The full audio can be heard by subscribers on our Patreon channel at http://patreon.com/tsoe Merry Christmas!
Dec 23, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ed and Ron are supposed to discuss the controversies surrounding behavioral economics—including some of Dan Ariely’s research—and we probably will. But with Greg, you never know where the conversation will go. What you do know, is it will be entertaining, hilarious, and possibly even educational. Don’t miss this episode with one of the funniest CPA/MBA comedians out there, and Ron’s hero, Greg Kyte.
Dec 16, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed always enjoy taking the show on the road and on this weeks episode we will have some of that live energy from the crowd in Austin Texas. They will talk subscription, of course… as well as other ideas relating to technology consulting. As usual, it promises to be the fastest hour of the week.
Dec 09, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed are honored to welcome Gale L. Pooley to The Soul of the Enterprise to discuss his 2022 book, co-authored with Marian L. Tupy, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. We interviewed Marian Tupy on the book back on September 23, 2022 (Episode #409). This is a groundbreaking book, a new way to measure standards of living, economic dynamism, innovation, growth, and resource abundance. It's certainly in our Top 5...
Dec 02, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast On Black Friday, the biggest Holiday shopping day of the year, Ed and I thought it would be fun to review the book, Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays, by Joel Waldfogel, published in 2009. Waldfogel estimates that giving gifts nobody wants is a deadweight loss to the economy to the tune of approximately $12 Billion, mostly on credit cards. Money we don’t have to buy things people don’t want. As he writes, when you say to your mother-in-law, “A cribbage board. You sho...
Nov 25, 2022•3 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Waaay back in Episode 22, Ron and Ed detailed the ideas behind Joel Waldfogel's book, Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays. Waldfogel makes the case that the deadweight loss to the economy from gift giving, in 2007, totaled $12 billion, out of approximately $66.5 Billion spent (about 12%) and that we should all give cash rather than presents. In this episode, we will speak with Professor Tony Gill about his ideas around Rethinking Scroogencomics and some of his other wr...
Nov 18, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed welcome to the show James Geraghty. As a biotechnology executive, Jim has been a passionate participant in the orphan drug revolution since its inception. We will talk about his book, Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution, The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology, which is in part a history, with eye-witness accounts of advances as they occurred and portraits of the pioneering scientists and physicians, tireless activists, and visionary business leaders who made the revolution happen...
Nov 11, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast George Gilder was unable to make it. So instead it’s a Stack of Stuff. Despite the weekly bonus episodes in which Ron and Ed go through their stack, things can build up over time. What better way to talk through the Twitter ownership change and how morticians are putting the fun in funerals?
Nov 04, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed welcome to the show one of the co-authors of the new book Taxes Have Consequences. Ever since 1913, when the United States first imposed the income tax via constitutional amendment, the top rate of that tax has determined the fate of the American economy. When the top rate has been high, as in the late 1910s, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1970s, the response of those with money and capital has been to curtail real economic activity in favor of protecting assets and income streams. Huge...
Oct 28, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ed and Ron welcome back Dr. Reginald Lee for the 6th time! Join us for a free-wheeling discussion on a variety of topics.
Oct 21, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join Ed and Ron for a discussion with John Farrell, author of The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can’t Live Without.
Oct 14, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Current low rates of unemployment, touted by pundits and politicians, are grievously misleading. The truth is that fewer prime-age American men are looking for readily available work than at any previous juncture in our history. Ron and Ed will talk with Nicholas Eberstadt, author of Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition. In addition to the book, they will talk about Nicholas's other area of expertise, North Korea.
Oct 07, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed are thrilled to welcome David Leary, co-host of The Cloud Accounting Podcast to this week's episode to talk about various and sundry issues facing the accounting profession. We will include a conversation (read diatribe) about LEAN Six-sigma and how it ruins companies. For full show notes visit: http://thesoulofenterprise.com/410
Sep 30, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Even the most casual listener of the show will know that Ed and Ron rail on the billable hour as modern day Marxist thinking. Time is money! defenders of the billable hour declare. No, no, no. In his recent book, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, this week's Guest, Marion Tupy offers the idea that while time is not money, however, MONEY IS TIME. Get ready for some cognitive dissonance! For shoe notes, visit http:/...
Sep 23, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed welcome the CATO Institute's director of economics and trade policy studies, Scott Lincicome. Scott writes on international and domestic economic issues, including international trade; subsidies and industrial policy; manufacturing and global supply chains; and economic dynamism. For show notes, visit http://thesoulofenterprise.com/408
Sep 16, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed welcome to the show Brett Haralson, director of community at our sponsor Melio. Brett has robust experience as a strategic leader focused on community strategy, and has been integral to influencing business growth while focusing on program development and management. Join us as he shares his thoughts on community (and maybe even talk a little BitCoin.) For show notes visit - http://thesoulofenterprise.com/407
Sep 09, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ron and Ed welcome Reza Hooda a chartered accountant in the UK who transformed his firm and subsequently himself. Back in 2008, he acquired a small firm called Walji & Co after he left his position as an accountant at PwC. He wanted to be my own boss as well as make a noticeable impact in some way to the accounting industry. We are excited to hear his story of how he has done just that.
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