Thriving in the New Normal What follows are notes from a conversation yesterday with Jim Blasingame, who has his finger on the pulse of small business, His website is one of my faves: Small Business advocate My world includes small business owners, corporate CEOs of firms owned by private equity outfits, private equity firms themselves [...]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
All Businesses Are (or can be) Family Businesses As an observer of and coach to businesses large and small, I have always learned a great deal from entrepreneurs and those more corporate executives who adopt the best of their traits. In recent years, I have observed at close hands the strengths and weaknesses of entrepreneurs [...]
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
A recent NRDC environmental report pleaded with urban dwellers to use more durable umbrellas. Apparently, thousands of umbrellas break and are discarded each and every time it rains in major cities and these end up in landfills. Catherine Charlot’s innovative initiative in capitalizing (literally) on this profit pool (pun intended) was the subject of Alisa [...]
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate is a treasure: ideas, best practices and lots mo6re in the form of radio interviews, a website and archives. So when he asks me to spend time with him, I always look forward to it (August 25 at 0826 Eastern). Two topics come to mind: 1. Good moves in uncertain [...]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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