Corporate employees and small business owners may as well live on two different planets. Corporate employees work hard to meet the goals and objectives of their organizations just as small business owners do. But unlike small business owners, corporate employees never have to worry about making payroll or keeping the lights turned on. There’s no […]
Dear Madam Secretary, I’ve always been an admirer of yours. I cheered when President Bill Clinton appointed you as the first woman to serve as our Secretary of State. You broke through the glass ceiling and you were an outstanding role model and inspiration. When I wrote The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success, I […]
It was January 1957, when an accidental entrepreneur, Walter Fredrick Morrison (“Fred”), sold the rights for the Pluto Platter (later known as the Frisbee) to the Wham-O toy company. (The name may have come from the Frisbie Baking Company.) As legend has it, Fred and his girlfriend were tossing a popcorn lid back and forth […]
Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, III served under three presidents – Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter – and now he is the chairman and founder of McLarty Associates and chairman of the McLarty Companies, a fourth-generation family transportation company. That’s an incredible resume and I think it proves that he’s a “straight shooter,” […]
Band of Brothers. Today we know that phrase because of the outstanding HBO series. Yet those are the words of William Shakespeare, and as is with much of what he wrote, these three simple words speak of an eternal and universal truth: the greater power and courage of individuals when they join together for a […]