The BusinessMakers Overtime - Week of May 5, 2010: Passion & Diversity

Episode 041 originally broadcast on May 05, 2010

Katie Laird and Esther Steinfeld present our weekly romp into the Wild, Wild West of business. Madness in the news: Arizona baseball, technoverbiage and Ben Franklin. Then, we visit with Mike Micallef--Renaissance Man, Entrepreneur & Cowboy. (“Guys in spacesuits and hopefully not in the middle of summer!”)

A Walk on the Wild Side

Katie Laird and Esther Steinfeld present our weekly romp into the Wild, Wild West of business. So much madness in the news this week: Arizona baseball has now entered the fray; isn’t sports supposed to be a respite from politics? Do you have a website, and email? Ben Franklin is getting a facelift with color; counterfeiting just got more complicated. And! A new CEOs Say the Darndest Things. (“And then he deleted his email account!”)

Diversifying the Family Business

Katie visits with Ft. Worth native Mike Micallef, a renaissance man with diversified talents, who oversees his family’s non-manufacturing companies, among them, Reata Restaurants, CF Ranch and Sierra La Rana, a gated development in the Davis Mountains. And he has a cookbook and a movie set! (“Guys in spacesuits and hopefully not in the middle of summer!”)

The Science of Passion

Katie and Esther discuss crazy brilliance, data and geeky passion in the workplace. How should one select a profession? What makes a job worthy of passion? Most career-focused books speak to matching work to personality, but shouldn’t we focus more on self-reflection to make big decisions? (“If you don’t have it in you already, you’re not going to find it.”)