Archive for the business profitability Category

Corporate Mediocrity Can’t Be The “New Normal”

At a time when great companies like Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and IBM (among others) are working through serious issues, vigorous efforts to eliminate behaviors that institutionalize mediocrity must be a top priority.  I have found that a key to understanding and then, changing, a culture is carefully listening to how employees speak. Business-speak […]

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How the NFL IS America’s Business

If Corporate America was covered like sports, then annual budget sessions would get the same kind of around the clock coverage  this (past) weekend’s NFL Draft did. Congratulations to Roger Goodell and the NFL for turning its annual player draft into a mini-version of the Super Bowl […]

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Smart Money for Smart Businesses

Original Article featured Access to Capital (D&B Credibility Corp.©) – April 24, 2013 If you run a business looking for capital you will find investors are more active and willing, as they have more money to put to work than had been the case in the past few years. While deals […]

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