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Tired of Boring, Fruitless Staff Meetings?

Tired of Boring, Fruitless Staff Meetings?

It may be time to shake things up a bit!  Most staff meetings involve the use of an all too familiar agenda:  1) The leader Read More

Should you be Crowd Funding in 2013? How One Company Raised Over $10 million

Should you be Crowd Funding in 2013? How One Company Raised Over $10 million

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your first New Year’s present has arrived.

It’s a gift from our kids; a generation feverishly bent on serious change. And this 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

The Fiscal Cliff for Entrepreneurs

The Fiscal Cliff for Entrepreneurs

The business press is buzzing about the impending “The Fiscal Cliff”, painting a daunting picture of the tax increases slated to go into affect on Read More

Peernovation

Peernovation

I read once that “innovation is creativity realized.”  I wish I could remember where I read it and who wrote this statement, but it squares Read More

Being There For One Another

Being There For One Another

A number of years ago, United Way produced a video that cleverly poked fun at itself, while at the same time making a powerful point.   Read More

Options to Consider in Choosing Health Benefits Packages for Small Businesses

Options to Consider in Choosing Health Benefits Packages for Small Businesses

Small businesses have faced a complicated pricing structure in selecting health benefit plans for their employees in the wake of the passage of the 2010 Read More

Why You Should Attend the 2012 Milken Institute Global Conference

Why You Should Attend the 2012 Milken Institute Global Conference

How do we create more jobs? How can we fix the budget deficit? Is education meeting the needs of the 21st century workplace? How Read More

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Exclusive Webinar: Boost Your Success by Selling to Other Small Businesses

Admit it: No matter how well your business may be doing, you’re always looking for that next big sale.

But if you want that next Read More

It’s A Small (Business) World After All

It’s A Small (Business) World After All

Amidst all the Fortune firms that employ millions across our fair land, a secret exists that’s neither widely known nor broadcast to the masses.  The Read More

How to Come Up with Your Company’s First 50 Blog Articles…In Less than 30 Minutes

How to Come Up with Your Company’s First 50 Blog Articles…In Less than 30 Minutes

Note**This is the first article in a series of posts about blogging for business by Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion (Look for the next Read More

5 Small Businesses Getting Results With Social Media

5 Small Businesses Getting Results With Social Media

When it comes to social media success, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. To save time, money and resources, find out who’s getting real Read More

Lessons From Goldman Sachs For Struggling Middle Market Companies and Small Businesses

Lessons From Goldman Sachs For Struggling Middle Market Companies and Small Businesses

The dramatic fall of MF Global into bankruptcy on Monday, November 1, 2011 is widely blamed on the risky trades of Jon Corzine, who had Read More

Three Ways to Lead in Turbulent Times

Three Ways to Lead in Turbulent Times

Turbulent times. The phrase conjures up a financial slowdown and a tightening credit market. But the economy doesn’t need to be in the toilet for Read More

(Infographic) CEO Confidence: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words

(Infographic) CEO Confidence: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words

The 20 point drop in the Vistage CEO Confidence Index this year is shocking, but not unexpected. Vistage CEOs feel that they are the victims Read More

3 Keys for Maintaining your Company’s Mojo!

3 Keys for Maintaining your Company’s Mojo!

There has been the occasional business leader whose reign has been magical (Welch and Jobs come to mind).  Yet their business often fall to sustaining Read More

The Deadly Cycle of Customer Fatigue

The Deadly Cycle of Customer Fatigue

One of the bi-products of our caffeine crazed, media blitzed economy is that we have virtually no attention span. It is as if we have Read More

The Changing Role of Board Involvement in Corporate Strategy

The Changing Role of Board Involvement in Corporate Strategy

Up until the early-2000‘s, corporate boards might have rubber-stamped their approval of the CEOs strategic plan without the need for much involvement in its formulation. Read More

Do you have a Strategy or a Strategic Plan?

Do you have a Strategy or a Strategic Plan?

Everybody likes to think of themselves as a strategic thinker.  From advisory board members, to CPA’s and marketing consultants, lots of people list “strategic planning” Read More

Intelligence Lost: Seven Innovative Steps to Ensure Boomer Retirement Doesn’t Create Knowledge Vacuum

Intelligence Lost: Seven Innovative Steps to Ensure Boomer Retirement Doesn’t Create Knowledge Vacuum

The U.S. business community is facing a war of intelligence attrition. Fortune 500s will see countless experienced knowledge workers walk out the door over the Read More

“FUD” Health News and the Informed Broker

“FUD” Health News and the Informed Broker

Over the past few months, I’ve come across an increasing number of reports that I’m filing under “FUD” media: stories that employ tactics of Fear Read More

Time to Merge or Acquire?

Time to Merge or Acquire?

The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah Needleman recently reported that during the second quarter of 2011, sales of small businesses were up and, significantly, that it’s Read More

Does Size Matter?

Does Size Matter?

I recently had a conversation with a CEO who was lamenting about the disparity between public company valuations and those of privately held concerns. As Read More

Innovation and How to Harness the Creative Mindset

Innovation and How to Harness the Creative Mindset

Every organization has a diverse group of personalities that respond differently to particular management styles. The creatives of an organization are often the group that Read More

Supermarkets, Maslow, Extreme Sports (Part 3)

Supermarkets, Maslow, Extreme Sports (Part 3)

This post serves as Part 3 of a piece that attempts to make the case that the same practices we use to avoid costly crisis Read More