The Third Growth Option with Benno Duenkelsbuehler and Guests
Welcome to The Third Growth Option, where we're not just talking about growth—we're making it our mission.
At TGO, we understand that success isn't a fixed destination; it's an ongoing journey with twists, turns, and unexpected detours that take us to new places. Those moments are our Third Growth Options, where we throw away binary choices to create our own path.
Hosted by Benno Duenkelsbuehler, O.G #GrowthNerd, we're on a mission to redefine success inside and outside of business, one episode at a time. From humble beginnings to Fortune 500 companies, our stories are not just about business—it's about the relentless pursuit of greatness in every aspect of life.
With each episode, we don’t just want to share insights—we want to empower business owners across all frontiers to carve their own path to success, their way.
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 175
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Symphony of Growth
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We started with the leadership analogy of orchestra musicians as cross-functional business team members, the conductor as its leader – but my guest Danie…
Post-Pan Pivots – growing stronger thru adversity
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“Never waste a good crisis” is an important reminder as we work through the COVID pandemic and prepare for post-pandemic life. Craig Todd shares five val…
Growing by Design – Using Empathy to Unlock Growth
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How does empathy unlock potential for growth? Cindy Tripp talks about seeing the world in the other’s shoes, building rapport and candor, letting go of j…
Product Growth thru Creativity + Analysis
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A life-long merchant with manufacturers and national retailers, Karin Jeske talks about the left/right brain approach to product development, “from spre…
When Life and Business Partner is the Same Person
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Our 16- and 20-year-old daughters said to us “you guys should do a podcast about working together.” My wife Hilda Castillo Duenkelsbuehler is this episod…
Growth Journeys – Across Continents and Cultures
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Born in Turkey, raised in beautiful Istanbul, and leading teams in Italy and the USA, Mehmet Yuksek knows a thing or two about growth journeys, cultural …
Run your Business to Sell it in Three Years
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Amplifying a business by a factor of 10x (in Jeffrey Lazarow’s case from 5 stores to a chain of 49 mall stores in 11 states) requires an open mind, a few…
Design Thinking for Manufacturers
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Front-end innovation for manufacturers starts with falling in love with a problem, requiring us to clarify assumptions and customers’ needs. If the produ…
Story behind the story of a disruptive start-up
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A real estate executive asked “is there a better way” for home buyers and sellers to find each other. Nick Rabin talks thru the concept his group develop…
Outsiders contributing to family businesses: a cultural perspective
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There are as many good reasons to bring large company thinking to privately-held smaller businesses, as there are ways to make that work, or not work. Ca…
Managing Quality During Growth Inflection Points
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Managing quality creates different challenges as a business moves through different growth inflection points. Nils Larsson (a product and manufacturing e…
Diversity at Work to Foster Growth
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There are many ways to think about diversity – from federally mandated to diversity of opinions. Here talking with my life-long friend and NYC employment…
From rags to riches to rags to rich…
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Doug Stein is a serial entrepreneur, a high school drop out with an MBA, a restaurateur who ran restaurants in Arizona, Asia, and Africa, who started and…
Interim or Fractional Growth Capacity
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What is fractional growth capacity, for what businesses does it work best, and what impact can a CEO hiring a fractional leader expect? Rock Robinson (I …
Managing Growth and Self-Imposed Barriers
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Sometimes it’s not market competition or financial constraints that limit growth, but “self-imposed” limits. In this episode we talk with Tom Hattersley …