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 […]
The statistics are shocking: * 75 percent of all employees have stolen from their employers at least once. * $50,000,000,000 is lost to employee theft each year in the US. * 33 percent of all business bankruptcies are caused by employee theft. Most of us look out over our team and think nothing but good […]
It has been a big week for businesses, workers, government, unions and the First Amendment. The US Supreme Court handed down two 5-4 decisions that will certainly affect commerce in the years to come. The most widely anticipated decision was the Hobby Lobby case. The Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores is a closely held […]
For as long as I’ve been following current events, problems in our system of education have been making headlines. Math, science, test scores and literacy are favorite topics. However, teaching entrepreneurship is a subject I seldom—if ever—see discussed, so I doff my figurative hat to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) for its Lemonade […]
Do the words, “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” ring a bell? If you’re like many small business owners, you and your employees have downloaded beaucoup apps onto your smartphone and other devices, because they seemed useful…at one point in time. There’s another variation on “app creep,” and that’s when one app […]