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Articles, ideas and thoughts that are useful to CEOs and owners of mid-sized businesses.
Recent Posts
Turning Inside Out -- Dr. Gary Gabel at TEDxDetroit Conference
The thoughts that dominate your mind have gotten you where you are today….They've also kept you where you are today.This was one of the messages that Chief Executive Boards International member Gary Gabel shared with attendees at the TEDxDetroit Co...
This Recovery is Not a Mirage
While the popular press continues to find reasons for worry, the recovery of the US economy is underway. If you're still hunkered down, it's time to stick your head up out of the foxhole, look around, and step up your new-business acquisition machine...
The First Obama Christmas, Per the Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal, Saturday, November 28, 2009: "In this, the first Obama Christmas, the nation finds itself tentative, apprehensive, uncharacteristically indecisive." That sentence pretty much sums up the attitude of many business owners this seas...
Let Your Senator Know What You Think About Health Care Legislation
This blog was never intended to be a political platform. Given the impending passage of a massive piece of legislation (over 2000 pages thick, yet to be bloated by pork projects as necessary to secure hesitant votes in the Senate), I'm making an exce...
Compensation Design -- 8 Steps to Pay (Only) for the Behaviors You Want
A few critical pitfalls pervade most small businesses. Lousy and late financial information is one of them. One of the others is poorly-designed incentive compensation programs. You'd be amazed at the millions of American workers who get incentive (o...
SBA ARC Loan Program Stalled by Banks
Well, this one is interesting. A Federal Agency tried to do something right (or almost right), and the private sector broadly torpedoed it.If you've followed this thread, I'm referring to the America's Recovery Capital (ARC) loan program, originated ...

