photo by viZZZual.com  As a business owner, you always have choices on how you run your business.  It’s not unusual to see a taskmaster chewing out their employees and running a tight ship.  You will also find those businesses that are run with encouragement and a high degree of compassion. The cynics out there […]

photo by lepiaf.geo The continuing evolution of the internet has changed a lot of things – how people communicate (Facebook, Twitter), how they establish expertise (blogging, answering questions, wikis) and how business is done (online presence is mandatory now). What’s really exciting is that social media and the internet has generated a lot of cool […]

Are you a hero in your business?  Are you out there applying your super heroic selling skills, delivery abilities or micromanagement ‘gifts’ in order for your business to thrive (or survive)? Do you take special pride in your ability to fight the fires and the chaos that surrounds your day to day operations?  Are you […]

  photo by Robert S. Donovan  As a business owner, when you first start out you create some sort of vision of success.  A vision that’s compelling enough to get you to take the big leap, leave your job, take the risk…whatever it might be. That vision usually has a money component – ultimately you […]

I’ve been on a kick lately to collect older movies – movies that I remember as influential or just entertaining from ‘formative’ years (which probably are still going on now that I think about it). Some of them have held up better than others (I watched the director’s cut of The Warriors recently and I […]

  photo from NASA  Regardless of the type of business you’re in, the last 2 or 3 years have been a challenge, including the longest recession since 1929.  The good news is there are a lot of positive signs that the economy, led by small business, is ready to take off. How do you make […]