Resources

From blog posts to book reviews and recommendations – and everything in between – Lodestone offers you free resources to educate, motivate and inspire you.

We are avid consumers of great ideas. On this page, we have curated the best classic and contemporary thinking into these categories – people, operations, leadership, business tips, videos and library/books review.

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Podcast Episode 019: The FOCUS Tool

Aug 29, 2022 |

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses his new tool called FOCUS, inspired by the book Eat that Frog (Brian Tracy). 2:45 Book reference: Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy 3:14 Book reference: All...

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Podcast Episode 018: The S.M.A.C.K.! Tool

Aug 16, 2022 |

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses one of his most valuable tools, S.M.A.C.K.! - a guided conversation pathway to help identify roots to an issue, and assemble one or more solutions to...

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Podcast Episode 016: Generating Buy-in and Grit

Jul 8, 2022 |

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses Generating Buy-in and Grit, the Book “Drive” by Daniel H. Pink, our M3M Took, and a Shoutout to Leppo Rents, Akron Ohio. 1:32 Shoutout to Leppo Rents...

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Podcast Episode 015: The Visionary Dilemma

Jun 21, 2022 |

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore discusses the main premise from his upcoming book, The Visionary Dilemma. 2:42 Shoutout to TTX https://www.ttx-inc.com 4:00 What is vision? 5:46 Book referenced...

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Podcast Episode 014: Interview with Brandon Kenney

Jun 17, 2022 |

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Brandon Kenney Co-Owner & CEO of TTx https://ttx-inc.com/ has a discussion with Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore over chapters 1-2 of the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of...

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