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Steve contributes his real-world experience and expertise in publications and interviews from around the world.
Media Contributor
Steve has appeared in international news outlets, programs, and publications sharing his insights and innovative strategies that have led c-level executives to transform their company cultures and maximize their growth potential. He has been sought after to speak by many TV and radio, and podcast programs including Adam Carolla: Take a Knee, Presented by Podcast One.
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Steve as a Media Contributor
How to keep staff motivated in a downturn
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'Passing the Blame Torch' Is a CEO Practice That Should Die
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Six Actions CEOs Should Never Take with Their Boards of Directors
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4 reasons to encourage teams to engage in conflict
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The Next ‘Black Swan’ Is Afoot: Can You Recognize the Early Signs of Business Weakness?
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6 Important Business Lessons I Learned from Failure
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Just Because You Can Take Business Doesn’t Mean You Should
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A True Visionary | Steven L. Blue
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5 Warning Signs That You Are a Fuzzy Communicator
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A CEO Follows the Product, Turning up a Slew of Hidden Profit
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3 warning signs your success is leading to failure
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MANUFACTURING'S TRILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION
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Hard Truth in the C-Suite: 7 Ways for Leaders to Embrace Negative Feedback
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Building Your CEO Career The Hard Way: And Why You Should Want To
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Bumper Sticker Values Will Be the Death of Your Company
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Steven L. Blue: Leading Change and Business Transformation
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Why Smart Manufacturing Is a Dumb Idea
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The Pandemic Isn’t The Last Disruptor You Will Face: How To Get Ready For The Next One
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5 Sure-Fire Ways to Kill Innovation
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The three biggest pit falls to transforming your company. Are you truly ready for change?
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Transform, Ignite, Disrupt your company to success.
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8 Hyper-Growth Principles for your business
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Trump Shouldn’t Believe Apple’s Promise to Create More American Jobs
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No More Mr. Nice Guy! Stop Dysfunction To Build A World-Class Team
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How to Rebrand With Customer Perceptions in Mind
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Smart Manufacturing Starts with Your People
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Miller Ingenuity honors Houston teacher, gives money to school
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Race To The Bottom
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Houston HS teacher wins second place, $2,000, in Miller Ingenuity’s National 2014 Ingenuity Challenge
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Rebranding? Be Like Blue Ribbon Sports (Nike)
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Amid a soft US economy, the Twin Cities emerge with jobs
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If You Think Your Business Can't Fail, Think Peyton Manning
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Rethinking ROI: Revenue, Operations, and Innovation
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Damage Control After an Office Showdown
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Podcast Highlights
Hear Steve’s Audio Interviews
Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
How do you feel about your personal and professional life? Many people feel like they or their teams are stuck in a mediocrity trap. The question is how do you take where you are today and make it better and overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to your success? Not only that, but how can you inspire your children or employees to do the same and become their best? In the Becoming Your Best podcast, Steve and Rob Shallenberger will help you uncover the principles of highly successful leaders. This podcast will give you the tools and processes to help you become the person, parent, partner, or leader that you’ve dreamed of becoming.
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The Business Power Hour
Every year, hundreds of books and thousands of articles are written about marketing, building your business, social media, entrepreneurship and other business topics. And, there’s an array of conferences, seminars, webinars, training, blogs – the list is endless – discussing “how to” topics for your business. As an entrepreneur or business owner yourself, you know this information is vital, but how do you keep up? After all, you have a business to run!
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Leaders of Transformation
The Leaders of Transformation is a podcast, a community, and a movement. Want to make a positive impact in the world? Build a mission-based business? Transform people's lives with your ideas, strengths and passion? Every week our host Nicole Jansen interviews conscious business leaders and difference makers who are changing the world one conversation at a time. Tune in to hear inspiring stories of leadership, transformation, overcoming obstacles, and global impact
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Business Power Hour
Every year, hundreds of books and thousands of articles are written about marketing, building your business, social media, entrepreneurship and other business topics. And, there’s an array of conferences, seminars, webinars, training, blogs – the list is endless – discussing “how to” topics for your business. As an entrepreneur or business owner yourself, you know this information is vital, but how do you keep up? After all, you have a business to run!
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Issues And Ideas With Chris DeBello
Issues And Ideas With Chris DeBello is a weekly newsmagazine program which brings newsmakers, political leaders and heads of organizations to radio listeners across the United States. These timely discussions offer insight into the issues and events that Americans want to gain a better understanding of.
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Steve Blue | CEO, Miller Ingenuity 20 Minute Leaders
Steve is President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity, an international manufacturer of high technology products that save lives and preserve the environment. Steve has published five books that teach senior leaders and CEOs how to increase profit, take market share, and destroy competition. He is an internationally recognized expert on leading change and business transformation. Steve is a highly-acclaimed keynote speaker, having addressed audiences at Harvard Business School, The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Industry Week, The World Safe Summit, CEO Clubs International and Medtronic Corporation. His leadership insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, CEO World, Business Week and Success Magazines.
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Cliff Notes Podcast
Listen to the Cliff Notes Podcast for the best guests in the industrial business. We speak to people who work hard around the shop floor to share the cliff notes on what helped their companies and careers build great products and reach new heights.
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The Manufacturing Executive
On The Manufacturing Executive podcast, we’ll explore the strategies and experiences that are driving midsized manufacturers forward. You’ll hear conversations with passionate manufacturing leaders who have compelling stories to share about their successes and struggles.
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The Manufacturers' Network
The Manufacturers' Podcast is THE place for manufacturers to connect with and learn from other manufacturers. Not only will listeners get to learn from their manufacturing colleagues, but they will also discover HOW they can help each other as a resource or as a source of help and inspiration.
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The UNconventional Path with Bela and Mike
Entrepreneurship does not always take the traditional path. In each episode, we try to capture and share the essence of how interesting people sometimes take unconventional paths to build their businesses.
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Leadership is Changing with Denis Gianoutsos
Welcome to Leadership is Changing! Each week, we and our guests provide information and insights through exploring leading change. This is taking your leadership to another level by finding the balance between executive excellence and personal well-being through stories that inspire real change. It’s time to adapt in our fast-moving world when leadership is changing, with your host, Denis Gianoutsos.
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A Seat at the Table
Surround yourself with success! Listen to what executives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders from around the world are saying – about business, leadership, new strategies and innovation.
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What is innovation?
Weekly conversations with experts and practitioners in a variety of fields about what innovation is and how we can all get better at it.
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The Leadership Habit
Welcome to The Leadership Habit podcast, the show that brings you inspiration and information from the Crestcom Leadership Institute to help you transform behaviors, create lasting change, and build a pathway to success.
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The Drop in CEO with Deborah Coviello
Inspire your team. Elevate your people. Transform your organization from within. The most common problem business leaders face is being able to identify a problem before it ripples into the entire organization. As the Drop in CEO I help businesses get to the root of the issue and use 15+ years of proven executive leadership strategies to fix the problem and make way for a brighter future.
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Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett
Compassionate Capitalism may sound like an oxymoron AND it is the most powerful model we have for ensuring sustainable success. Every organization has a “soul” or spirit that is its founding source. It is a non-replicable creative advantage and knowing how to access and leverage this unique “soul” is a crucial key to sustainable success for all life on the planet!
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Accelerate Your Business Growth
Featured on Inc.com's list of 100 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter, Better, and Wiser, MSNBC's Your Business, and on the Fit Small Business list of best small business podcasts, this show is designed to help small business owners, salespeople, and new entrepreneurs with the various aspects of business success. We have a great lineup of guests and topics scheduled. We’ll be talking about everything from sales to employee issues; from technology to social media; from work-life balance to exploring uncharted territory. The host, Diane Helbig goal is to help you remove challenges so that you can realize your own success with your business.
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Deep Leadership with Jon Rennie
I’m joined by Steve Blue. Steve is President and CEO of Miller Ingenuity, an internationally recognized business transformation expert, media contributor, 5x-author, and dynamic keynote speaker. His expertise lies in transforming company cultures through innovation and investments in workforce growth. I’m excited to have him on the show to discuss the leader’s role in business transformation. Deep Leadership is a People Business.” That's the philosophy of this leadership podcast from Jon Rennie. It's real-world, actionable advice from Jon as well as his expert guests. As a former Cold War Submarine Officer who spent 22 years leading businesses in Corporate America before starting his own manufacturing business, he knows that leadership matters!
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I Am CEO Podcast
CEO and Author Help Transform Company Cultures Through Innovation and Investments in Workforce Growth. CEO Podcasts consist of CEO Chat (CC), I AM CEO (IAM) & CBNation.TV (TV) podcast episodes. Value-packed episode including interviews & resources for CEOs, entrepreneurs, startup founders & business owners. The CEO Chat episodes are our long-form episodes w/ interviews and digital marketing resources. The I AM CEO episodes are laser focused (about 16 min.) w/ interviews & a discussion about what it means to be a CEO. Powered by Blue 16 Media & CBNation.co. Hosted by Gresham W. Harkless Jr.
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Lifetime at Work: Career & Business Podcast with Greg Martin
Company culture is the focus of managers, owners, and employees alike, but the question of what we’re all looking for isn’t always easy. Speaker, author, and business transformation expert Steven L. Blue discusses his background and why he’s an expert on company culture. Through experiences at different levels of an organization and his roles working to improve and fix the internal workings of different businesses. With host Greg Martin, the interview covers topics including the divide between blue-collar and white-collar culture, rooting out problems within a company, trusting and respecting employees, and interacting with subordinates.
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Win Make Give with Ben Kinney
Bob and Chad are joined by speaker, author, and CEO Steve Blue and the conversation covers culture, the six silent business killers, and a warning about what is coming next! Join our Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/winmakegive Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network
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The ADAM CAROLLA Show
Adam Carolla, who holds the title for #1 daily downloaded podcast in the world, interviews notable people about their path to success in his weekly motivational podcast “Take A Knee.” Adam interviewed Steve about his take on American manufacturing and discussed his latest book: American Manufacturing 2.0: What Went Wrong and How to Make It Right.
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Productivityist
Host Mike Vardy spoke with Steven about the shift from rust-belt to high-tech products, the patience involved when making a change, and the process of metamorphosis as a whole. There’s a lot to unpack in this episode and plenty of lessons that Steven offers that you should heed when undergoing organizational – or even individual – metamorphosis.
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The Big Pitch Radio Show
Steve was recently interviewed on The Big Pitch Radio Show, produced and co-hosted by Marla Tabaka, along with Jason Garey, founder of Diamond Business Advisors and Kevin Harrington, an original shark from ABC’s Shark Tank and founder of As Seen on TV. The Big Pitch Radio Show airs in 37 markets and can be heard by about 8 million people. Listen to Steve’s interview on episode 253!
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Happiness at Work by Management 3.0
You can only replace a culture that’s not functional with one that is functional. So what does it take to establish and grow companies to help them survive and thrive in the new economy? Take an inside look at how Steven, known for his “midas touch”, tripled the size of every company he’s run and transformed throughout his career.
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American City Business Journals
League of Extraordinary CEOs with the American Business Journals
As a leading business growth expert, speaker, author, and CEO, Steve Blue is a contributing writer for ACBJ, the largest publisher of metropolitan weekly business newspapers and websites reaching nearly 11 million unique monthly visitors over 40 different markets. Every month Steve delivers compelling interviews with fast-track CEOs on culture, growth, and organizational development in his feature article The League of Extraordinary CEOs. Some of these CEOs lead mega-companies and others are CEOs in the middle market. One thing is common among them all – they are just ordinary CEOs who have made it their life’s work to produce extraordinary results. While each story is unique, their roads to success are truly amazing. Steve is always on the lookout for potential CEO interview candidates for this Feature column. Interviews are pre-scheduled and conducted during a 30-45 minute phone call. All CEOs interested are invited to submit their information directly to Steve via Steve@StevenLBlue.com.
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