The Good for Business Podcast with Eric & Colin Krieger
Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 15 segments
Good for Business Podcast - Episode 62 - Robert Thompson Colin sat down with fellow transplanted New Orleanian Robert Thompson to talk about his background in business, their shared love of music and…
There's sustainable kinds of things that can be done to address things better.
And I have to say this, and then you're probably going to cut this part out, as long as people let us help.
And that's been the only maybe drawback of my visit here is that there's been some resistance to...
I think there's a problem that people here think that if I suggest something we did elsewhere might be something we could do here.
It's funny because the two people I interviewed this morning both said the exact same thing about change.
And I mean, change in any small, this is a relatively small town, but it's not as tiny as people perceive it to be.
I always say Wednesday at noon is how big your town really is, and there's about 60,000 people here Wednesday at noon.
And, yeah, now that's been some of the things is there's still some – there's always some old guard in certain organizations.
I think probably the biggest progress I've seen has been in the Visit Columbus.
yeah but there's still some holdouts and one person in charge of groups like i don't know about that yeah where they over committee a death by committee you know right well there's a little phrase going around town around the country it's sort of viral and it's like doobie canoe i don't know if you've heard that one uh it's a german song being sung that's gotten translated weirdly by americans but basically the lyrics is uh we are good enough and in a way it's like if you're addressing people who have you know uh don't have self-image that's a good message we are good enough we don't have to be you know better than what we are other people's comparisons to us is is not good but it also implies that we don't have to get better And I kind of feel like that happens here sometimes when I say, oh, I'd like to maybe see this happen here.
But maybe it would be good if we could add a few more things to that list or address some of the others with some innovative ideas about how they could be done elsewhere.
There's sustainable kinds of things that can be done to address things better.
And I have to say this, and then you're probably going to cut this part out, as long as people let us help.
And that's been the only maybe drawback of my visit here is that there's been some resistance to...
I think there's a problem that people here think that if I suggest something we did elsewhere might be something we could do here.
It's funny because the two people I interviewed this morning both said the exact same thing about change.
And I mean, change in any small, this is a relatively small town, but it's not as tiny as people perceive it to be.
I always say Wednesday at noon is how big your town really is, and there's about 60,000 people here Wednesday at noon.
And, yeah, now that's been some of the things is there's still some – there's always some old guard in certain organizations.
I think probably the biggest progress I've seen has been in the Visit Columbus.
yeah but there's still some holdouts and one person in charge of groups like i don't know about that yeah where they over committee a death by committee you know right well there's a little phrase going around town around the country it's sort of viral and it's like doobie canoe i don't know if you've heard that one uh it's a german song being sung that's gotten translated weirdly by americans but basically the lyrics is uh we are good enough and in a way it's like if you're addressing people who have you know uh don't have self-image that's a good message we are good enough we don't have to be you know better than what we are other people's comparisons to us is is not good but it also implies that we don't have to get better And I kind of feel like that happens here sometimes when I say, oh, I'd like to maybe see this happen here.
But maybe it would be good if we could add a few more things to that list or address some of the others with some innovative ideas about how they could be done elsewhere.
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