Keys to Emotional Health for Leaders during Covid – A peer-to-peer conversation with CEO Eric Rhoads

Keys to Emotional Health for Leaders during Covid – A peer-to-peer conversation with CEO Eric Rhoads

This weekend on THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Eric Rhoads, a leading CEO and entrepreneur faced with overcoming the challenge of losing 50% of his revenues overnight and maintaining a healthy state of mind…. Learn more>>

The Mentors Radio Show in Greater SF Bay Area moves to new time slot!

The Mentors Radio Show in Greater SF Bay Area moves to new time slot!

The Mentors Radio, a popular and unique business & ethics radio show now in its Fourth Year, has a new time slot on AM860 The Answer in the San Francisco Bay Area, now airing at 1:00 pm every Saturday.  Produced by the Catholic Business Journal, the radio show and radio podcast features three remarkable and…

BOOK REVIEW: Ram Charan’s Guide to Catching Structural Transitions before They Arrive, Using Perceptual Acuity, Reinvention and Courage

BOOK REVIEW: Ram Charan’s Guide to Catching Structural Transitions before They Arrive, Using Perceptual Acuity, Reinvention and Courage

Best-selling author and global consultant to CEOs, Ram Charan has been a privileged insider and an acute observer of business for more than 40 years. He has written and lectured extensively on strategy, execution, innovation, executive leadership, the board’s role, alignment, and global competition.

BOOK REVIEW: Responding to the Universal Call of Grace – riveting journey from Islam to Catholicism

BOOK REVIEW: Responding to the Universal Call of Grace – riveting journey from Islam to Catholicism

While attending the Napa Institute, I asked Ignatius Press’ Tony Ryan for his recommendation on a good book to read. Tony immediately told me, “From Fire by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith,” which was one of Ignatius’ bestsellers. I got a copy and found that Tony was right on the money. This is…

BOOK REVIEW: A Leader’s Manual for High Performance Management: Structure/Clarity, Meaning, Dependability, Safety and Meaning at Work

BOOK REVIEW: A Leader’s Manual for High Performance Management: Structure/Clarity, Meaning, Dependability, Safety and Meaning at Work

Book Review of “Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs,” by John Doerr The real job of leaders is not to formulate a “vision” and then delegate it to others to make it happen. Leadership is many things but at its essence, it is about delivering results.…

Co-host of The Mentors Radio Show Tom Loarie leads Bryologyx in Radically improving cancer immunotherapies, announcing new VP David Crockford

Co-host of The Mentors Radio Show Tom Loarie leads Bryologyx in Radically improving cancer immunotherapies, announcing new VP David Crockford

BryoLogyx Inc., (www.BryoLogyx.com), a privately-held, pre-clinical company developing a new class of proprietary drugs to enhance the response rates and treatment durability of cancer immunotherapies, announced today that David Crockford has joined the Company as vice president of clinical development and logistics, a new position. Crockford joins BryoLogyx after more than 40 years at pharmaceutical…

The Mentors Radio Program expands to greater Dallas-Fort Worth region

The Mentors Radio Program expands to greater Dallas-Fort Worth region

Now entering its Fourth Year, The Mentors Radio program expands broadcast into the greater Dallas-Forth Worth region beginning January 4, 2020, on the Salem Radio Network. The Mentors Radio Show features three ethical and successful CEO hosts—Tom Loarie, Ric Brutocao, and John Phillips—who engage in lively, in-depth interviews with top ethical business leaders from a wide…

BOOK REVIEW: The Warning – An Amazing Story of Danger and Hope Written by an Amazing Woman Who Took the Path Less Traveled

BOOK REVIEW: The Warning – An Amazing Story of Danger and Hope Written by an Amazing Woman Who Took the Path Less Traveled

Christine Watkins is a remarkable woman who has become one of today’s most important Catholic authors. “The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience” is her seventh book and is a top bestseller in Mysticism and Catholic Theology. Her primary interest is spiritual transformation, which is rooted in her own transformation, a story…

BOOK REVIEW: Inviting God into Your Life

BOOK REVIEW: Inviting God into Your Life

Invite God into Your Life and into a world in desperate need of spiritual solutions for today’s challenges, a review of Rev William Watson, S.J.,’s Inviting God Into Your Life: A Practical Guide for Prayer. We live in turbulent times characterized by injustice, violence, and misinformation (what we use to call propaganda). Happiness and peace…

BOOK REVIEW: Steve Jobs Copied Horst Schulze’s No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best

BOOK REVIEW: Steve Jobs Copied Horst Schulze’s No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best

Horst Schulze was at age five, a boy with a dream. He wanted to work in a hotel. The rest is history. He went on to be the founding president and COO of one of the foremost brands in the hotel industry, the Ritz-Carlton. Under his legendary leadership, Ritz-Carlton became the first and only hotel…

Keep it simple: Jim Horan helps businesses do just that to see profits soar

Keep it simple: Jim Horan helps businesses do just that to see profits soar

We all know the KISS shortcut for “Keep It Simple,” but the next guest mentor Jim Horan to be interviewed on The Mentors Radio Program, which is produced weekly by Catholic Business Journal, takes simplicity to a whole new level and applies it to business! Brilliant! After two decades in senior financial positions with Shaklee…

BOOK REVIEW: Sam Zell: Being Known as Someone Who Makes Others Better is the Highest Praise Anyone Can Receive

BOOK REVIEW: Sam Zell: Being Known as Someone Who Makes Others Better is the Highest Praise Anyone Can Receive

Review of Sam Zell’s Am I Being Too Subtle? — I enjoyed reading Sam Zell’s Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight talk from a business rebel . Zell, a Chicagoan, is a self-made billionaire who founded Equity Group Investments and helped create today’s $1 trillion public real estate industry. While a distinct personality, he shares…

BOOK REVIEW: No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy

BOOK REVIEW: No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy

In this 10th Anniversary Edition of No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy,  the Very Reverend Donald Calloway, MIC, provides a compelling account of his journey from darkness to light. His struggles with severe drug and alcohol abuse, “free” sex, gangs, deception and theft take him down a road that seemingly has no return. By…

BOOK REVIEW: The Vatican Cookbook

BOOK REVIEW: The Vatican Cookbook

What started as a modest effort to recruit has become a Collector’s item; a review of “The Vatican Cookbook: Presented by the Pontifical Swiss Guards.” My good friend, Andreas Widmer, a former Swiss Guard and now Director of the Entrepreneurship program at the Catholic University of America, provided my first behind-the-curtain glimpse of the Vatican’s…

Just Four Books: Consider these books for 2019

Just Four Books: Consider these books for 2019

Life is short. Time is crunched. We each juggle abundant obligations, time-constraints and important demands. As readers of the Catholic Business Journal, we aim to manage it all while well-anchored in Christ and Christ-infused priorities. It isn’t easy. It’s never perfect. Yet even amid the sometimes-messy realities of earthly existence, it is beyond-words important to…

BOOK REVIEW: A One-Step Process to Break the Parent-Adult Child Cycle of Abuse and Pain

BOOK REVIEW: A One-Step Process to Break the Parent-Adult Child Cycle of Abuse and Pain

A review of Sam and Gifford Keen’s Prodigal Father Wayward Son: A Roadmap to Reconciliation —  Best-selling author, Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man), and his son, Gifford (Gif), were estranged for many years. Sam’s story is the all too common account of a father working hard, gaining fame and then cashing…

BOOK REVIEW: Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

BOOK REVIEW: Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

Unstructured time is an under-appreciated and wasted gift in today’s modern industrialized world. We are driven by activity and fill moments of silence with busyness. We are conditioned to equate “work” with virtue and are uneasy with solitude. Authors Raymond Kethledge and Michael Erwin in “Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude” challenge this modern…

Rev. Earl Smith: Chaplain to NFL and NBA pro teams… and to Death Row inmates at San Quentin maximum security prison

Rev. Earl Smith: Chaplain to NFL and NBA pro teams… and to Death Row inmates at San Quentin maximum security prison

This week on The Mentors Radio Show, host Tom Loarie talks with Rev. Earl Smith, a remarkable leader who — after being shot 6 times and left for dead — transitioned from being a former drug dealer to becoming an award-winning chaplain for the San Francisco 49ers, the Golden State Warriors and for Death Row…

The Undisputed Master of Public Relations Harold Burson talks about the business of persuasion

The Undisputed Master of Public Relations Harold Burson talks about the business of persuasion

If you missed The Mentors Radio Show live interview with Harold Burson, co-founder of the world’s largest PR firm Burson-Marsteller and a man of exceptional generosity and principles, no problem.  The podcast version is available here, and an extra, private interview is available by signing up for the podcast (free). To pique your interest, below…

On The Mentors Radio: Harold Burson, the Godfather of PR

On The Mentors Radio: Harold Burson, the Godfather of PR

Following is an interesting article by Alex Benady for PRWeek on Harold Burson, one worth reading to the end.  Even better, hear him in person as The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie interviews Mr. Burson in person on the show’s upcoming episode. Find a podcast of the show here. The photo reflects Mr. Bruson back…

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