meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
The MuscleCar Place

TMCP #537: Ask Rick – Lessons Learned to Promote (or Dismiss) Employees; Plus an Easter Project Car Review Blowout!

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 β€’ 701 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

April is here and Easter is upon us! For some of us, Spring brings on the need to get out our cars and get them ready for driving. For others it is the time to look for a project car to work on since it is now warm enough to spend hours in the garage or driveway bringing it back to life. This time I decided to Ask Rick about not just three but SIX cars to get his take on; 3 were crusty (but promising) restoration projects, and 3 were terrific (and affordable) examples of 3rd generation Pontiac Firebirds/Trans Ams that might be good fits for my son to take on. However, we started by addressing some thought listener questions on business: promoting and dismissing employees.

The post TMCP #537: Ask Rick – Lessons Learned to Promote (or Dismiss) Employees; Plus an Easter Project Car Review Blowout! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The Muscle Car Place online podcast episode number 537. This week, Rick Schmidt is here for the Ask Rick segment, and we're going to do what you've always wanted us to do.

0:11.3

Review basket case project cars. That's right. We've got a bandit transam, a fastback Mustang, and a Shelby GT350, and they're all cars that years ago would have just been left for

0:22.3

debt. You're going to love it. But before that, Rick is going to take on the two big tough

0:26.7

business questions you owners wanted to know how to delegate and let somebody rise to a superstar

0:32.0

in your business and how to let them go when they need to be fired. They're both tough decisions,

0:37.3

but they're critical.

0:38.3

For NPD, superstars usually rise from within,

0:40.3

and they might just start by doing this.

0:42.3

We're looking for bright, quick-thinking,

0:45.3

efficient-thinking individuals who are ambitious

0:48.3

and willing to take those dozen catalogs home and study them.

0:53.3

This is the Muscle Car Place Online dozen catalogs home and study them.

0:58.9

This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast,

1:01.7

brought you by National Parks Depot.

1:05.8

This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.

1:08.6

If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.

1:14.9

Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby and welcome to the Muscle Car Place

1:21.6

podcast. Well, happy Easter 2023 to all of you. We got a fun show today with Rick Schmidt,

1:27.3

and as I said in the

1:28.4

intro, he's going to handle some tough business questions and review some total basket case

1:33.2

project cars. We have never done that before, but I found a few, and I thought I'd take a shot,

1:38.8

and he liked it. And we might do more of that in the future. It's really fun. And while we were at it, been shopping

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -723 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Robert Kibbe, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Robert Kibbe and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright Β© Tapesearch 2025.