Radically shifting markets, a plethora of price challenging products,

ever changing technology, and the unrelenting hand of time are making the aging owners of small to midsize (SMB) companies vulnerable. For many, this is a new and uncomfortable mindset. Fiercely independent, hard working, and resilient, a significant number are reluctant to consider...

Much can be learned from what it takes to elevate a male chorus to world

-class status and keep it there. The talent and the hard work of individual singers, although essential, will not suffice.  Success demands the shaping of a “peak performance” *culture.  The leader, along with personal talent, drive, and commitment, must move the group away...

Gary Griffin, is CEO of B&I Contractors in Fort Meyers Florida. 

 “Having skin in the game creates a different attitude” he said, “empowered employees have helped B&I weather severe recessionary pressures.  Like most businesses in Florida, B&I  had to make tough choices—but they survived and are now posturing for success in what is being called the shift age.  “ESOP is not all sweetness and...

Time waits for no one.  Treasure every moment you have.  You will treasure

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In an increasingly competitive world, businesses will not survive or grow

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The speaker at this  large aboriginal conference noticed attendees,

Clarence Louie is everything that was advertised and more.   Fortunately,  he is aboriginal himself. If someone else had said these things—for example, the white columnist standing in the back of the hall with his mouth open, they’d be viewed as racist. Instead, Chief Clarence Louie is considered one of the most interesting and innovative native...

On February 4-11, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin came together

for a conference at Yalta to decide the shape and fate of Central and Eastern Europe. In what many call a ‘sell-out’, Roosevelt gave in to Stalin’s insistence that Russia be given de facto control over the countries falling inside what he considered a ‘safety...

Today’s post   is not intended to be partisan although many readers

The mess we are in was not caused by presidents, members of congress, the judiciary, or constitutional tenets.  Rather it is being caused by a combination of; the untoward influence of special interest groups, a disregard for economic reality (most  politicians and a plethora of their advisors have no personal business experience),  dysfunctional...