Entrepreneur and author James Harold Webb joins Hunter Hastings to rethink what business education should be: practical, responsibility-driven, and grounded in real customer value. Webb explains how failure shaped his success, why teams matter more than tactics, and how purpose fuels sustainable growth. A powerful conversation for business leaders who believe experience is the ultimate teacher.
The concept of management is not a natural law. It’s a cultural artifact—devised in one age, taught and normalized in the next, and steadily hardened into something unquestionable. Its rules, norms, and assumptions regulate how people behave inside firms and shape what every generation comes to accept as “how things are done.” Today’s management, especially […]
What if your competitive advantage wasn’t your product or technology — but your customer experience?
In this conversation, Hunter Hastings and Sujay Saha unpack how leaders can build experience-centered organizations that thrive on emotional intelligence, insight, and intentional design. Sujay explains how AI-driven experience design is transforming the way companies engage customers and create long-term value. If you want to lead with empathy and measure what truly matters, this episode shows how to turn experience into your business’s most valuable asset.
Hunter Hastings sits down with Doug Crowe, a leader in thought leadership and storytelling strategy, to explore how entrepreneurs can cultivate authentic influence.
Doug explains how self-awareness, empathy, and consistent storytelling can elevate credibility, build lasting trust, and turn lived experience into long-term value creation.
For business leaders aiming to align their reputation with their mission, this episode offers a masterclass in designing an authentic personal brand that compounds value over time.
Bureaucracy is the hidden enemy of entrepreneurship. In this conversation with Ryan Turnipseed, Hunter Hastings unpacks how rules, managerialism, and corporate structures stifle creativity and redirect businesses away from delivering real value. Ryan shares insights from Burnham and Mises, explains why bureaucracies endure, and highlights how entrepreneurs can break free—using autonomy, decisiveness, and a focus on consumers. If you lead a business, this episode is a guide to dismantling barriers and building adaptive, value-driven organizations.
What does it take to build an organization that can actually adapt—not just talk about change?
In this episode, Hunter Hastings interviews Dr. Ross Rushworth to explore why most corporate change programs collapse and why real transformation comes from granting autonomy and judgment at the edges of the organization. Rushworth argues that decentralization is not delegation—it’s true ownership, and that entrepreneurial intent, not managerial control, must guide strategic direction.
If you’re a leader navigating complexity, this episode offers a practical, experience-based framework for shifting from control to capability, from rigidity to evolution.