Karl Studer on Communicating Across Organizational Levels

Communication across hierarchical levels in large organizations is among the most persistent and most consequential leadership challenges. The distortions that information undergoes as it moves up and down the organization — the filtering, the softening, the selective emphasis — can create genuine disconnects between organizational reality and leadership understanding that result in poor decisions and […]

Greg Soros Podcaster Turns Mentorship Into an Industry Movement

When Greg Soros founded Podcraft Media Lab in Austin, the obvious business case pointed in one direction: land Fortune 500 clients, scale production output, and focus on revenue. He pursued that path  and then built something alongside it that has arguably had a wider effect on the podcasting world than any single client project. The […]

The Payments Industry Through the Eyes of Thomas Priore

The payments industry is one of the most technically complex, competitively intense, and economically significant sectors in global business. Understanding it from the inside — as an operator building and running a payments company rather than as an analyst or investor observing it from the outside — gives Thomas Priore a perspective on where it […]