It’s now officially summer and hopefully for many of you that means it’s time for a summer vacation. Unless you plan on responding to emails during your time out of the office which defeats the purpose of taking a vacation, then you need to create an auto-response message. An auto-response message lets your customers, clients, […]
Disruptive innovation. Within the hallowed halls of the country’s top business schools, there’s a fierce debate raging over the concept of disruptive innovation. Some scholars even claim it doesn’t exist. If I can steal a line from former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when writing his opinion on the landmark 1964 Jacobellis v. Ohio pornography […]
After adopting the final draft of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the document was read in public in cities throughout our young country. It was a time of celebration and patriots exploded in cheers. While historians call our early ancestors, patriots, I call them entrepreneurs. They were visionaries who sailed to an […]
Many of you submit questions through my website. I do my best to respond in a timely manner with information to help you succeed in your business. Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding employees who leave to become a competitor so I thought I’d take this opportunity to discuss ways to protect […]
Business travel is part of my life. Practically every week I’m on a plane headed somewhere. For many years, my husband couldn’t travel with me on these trips because someone had to be at home to manage family matters. But today our situation has changed, and he has the availability to go with me. So […]