It?s hard to look anywhere these days and not see someone who hasn?t been affected by unemployment and the gloomy economy. With some states experiencing up to a 20% unemployment rate, you often wonder if there is anyone succeeding today? Fortunately, there is. In fact, some businesses are not only succeeding, but thriving as well. [...]

Article Contributed by Ray Haiber With the recent passing of the huge economic stimulus package there has been some speculation about whether some of its provisions will create or spur the development of new franchise business opportunities in certain industries like health care or renewable energy. The obvious question is whether major government incentives and [...]

Article Contributed Guy Kingston “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are [...]

Continued from Part 1 of the article Future Work by Abe WalkingBear Sanchez Even more companies will move from the old “department” way of thinking and will seek out commonalities within their different business functions. In the future, like today, redundancy elimination will rule. In the future, like today, smart business managers won’t waste their [...]

This is Part 1 of the article Future Work by Abe WalkingBear Sanchez Who’s responsible for our future society? How can business managers shape the future? Ron Fleisher of Tampa FL is a smart man. One of his favorite “quotes” is a window on how we should view the world and our place in that [...]