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Newfound Optimism

Newfound Optimism

Holy jobs report!

Not only did the U.S. economy generate 236,000 new jobs in February, sectors such as construction have found new found strength.  While Read More

Hurricane Sandy and its Financial Impact

Hurricane Sandy and its Financial Impact

Damage from Hurricane Sandy is far from fully tallied but a disaster-modeling firm, Eqecat, estimates that total economic damage from Hurricane Sandy could reach as Read More

Five Reasons Small Business Takes Center Stage In 2012 Presidential Election

Five Reasons Small Business Takes Center Stage In 2012 Presidential Election

Conduct a simple Google News search and compare results for “Small Business 2012 Presidential Election” with the same search for 2008.  You’ll discover data that Read More

Revolution: The Kony Video and the Future of Marketing

Revolution: The Kony Video and the Future of Marketing

You would have to be living under a rock not to have heard about the grass roots effort to capture Joseph Kony of the Lord’s Read More

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Hey CEOs, Want to $ave Cash? Here’s What Few See, That Takes Minutes …

In my last post, I described the nightmare that CEOs in America face when dealing with employee health costs, which have become the third-largest Read More

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DOOM for Dotcom? Pleading the ‘I’m a Techie’ Defense

In January, federal prosecutors in Virginia indicted Kim Dotcom, a.k.a. Kim Schmitz, a.k.a. Kim Tim Jim Vestor, the high-flying internet entrepreneur behind the file-sharing website, Read More

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The Megaupload Bust: Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Small Business

The case of embattled Megaupload founder Kim DotCom was one of the top stories that entrepreneurs watched unfold since late last week.

The man: Kim Read More

Veterans Day

Veterans Day

Post Written by Katie Reynolds

Today we honor our veterans for their courageous sacrifices for our country. At a time when unemployment numbers for veterans Read More

iSad- Steve Jobs RIP

iSad- Steve Jobs RIP

There are simply no superlatives that could possibly describe the achievements of  Steve Jobs. As a technologist, he was JFK, Michael Jordan and Jimmy Hendrix Read More

Don’t Be a Weiner! Twitter Tips for Small Business After the Photo Flap

Don’t Be a Weiner! Twitter Tips for Small Business After the Photo Flap

All right, this happened.

It’s gross, none of us wants to think about it, but it happened.

And while Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter scandal Read More

Lesson from Capturing Bin Laden – We Can And Do Persevere!

Lesson from Capturing Bin Laden – We Can And Do Persevere!

I’ve had this plaque hanging in my office for many years now with the title, Perseverance, and it uses the life of Abraham Lincoln Read More

If Uncertainty Is The Enemy of Confidence, How Can We Have A Government Shutdown?

If Uncertainty Is The Enemy of Confidence, How Can We Have A Government Shutdown?

What we’ve learned over the years through our Vistage CEO Confidence Index is that  confidence has proven to be a harbinger for economic growth.   The Read More

Japan (and Business Leaders) Could Learn from Chile

Japan (and Business Leaders) Could Learn from Chile

A 9.0 earthquake, an overpowering tsunami, and spreading nuclear fallout would overwhelm any government, even highly prepared ones like Japan, where disaster drills and sophisticated Read More

How is the Japan Disaster Affecting You and Your Staff? : 5 Tips for Helping Them and Not Hurting You.

How is the Japan Disaster Affecting You and Your Staff? : 5 Tips for Helping Them and Not Hurting You.

Many folks worldwide are personally struggling with the devastation, large loss of lives and possible nuclear meltdowns happening in Japan.

It’s hard not to feel Read More

Lessons from Japan- The Worst Case Scenario

Lessons from Japan- The Worst Case Scenario

It is perhaps the most daunting business paradox; the success of a business is based on a future that is nearly impossible to predict.  It Read More

What Business Leaders Can Learn from March Madness

What Business Leaders Can Learn from March Madness

From the sidelines, most basketball games can look frenzied: offensive players trying to find an open man, defenders hoping to trap and steal a ball, Read More

Are WE Winning?

Are WE Winning?

The recent Charlie Sheen debacle is the kind of public spectacle that underscores the current media environment – one that encourages the outrageous.   The more Read More

Bush, Assange, YPO & Controversy

Bush, Assange, YPO & Controversy

Last weekend, I attended the YPO Global Summit in Denver, Colorado.  As a member of both Vistage and YPO, each organization helps me achieve different Read More

Are 15 People Using Social Networking Causing the Collapse of the Egyptian Government?

Are 15 People Using Social Networking Causing the Collapse of the Egyptian Government?

I am astonished by the fact that business leaders still constantly want to engage with me in a discussion regarding whether or not social networking Read More