by Lea Strickland | Oct 2, 2025 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Opportunity, Results
Strategies to Analyze, Plan, and Thrive into 2026 As the final quarter of 2025 begins, businesses face a critical inflection point: the opportunity to solidify year-end results while laying the groundwork for long-term success in 2026. The closing months of any year...
by Lea Strickland | Oct 2, 2025 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Cash Management
Laying the Foundation You’ve built the framework of your business, structure, operations, and plans. Now, it’s time to pin down the details. Your operational plans serve as the backbone for your budget and forecasting financial needs, including both...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 26, 2025 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Execution, Operations
For CEOs leading early-stage companies in biotech, AI, MedTech, and deep tech, the focus is often on innovation, intellectual property, and speed to market. That’s understandable and essential. However, many promising ventures stall, stumble, or fail not because...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 17, 2025 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Economy and Economics
The world is constantly evolving. Businesses must meet the challenge and adapt to it. Today, the economic landscape is in transition (wars, tariffs, cultural clashes, financial turmoil, etc.), which will ultimately provide a stronger foundation for growth in the long...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 17, 2025 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Plans, Strategy
How to Build Flexible Strategies in Uncertain Times In an unpredictable economy, traditional business plans often fall short of expectations. They rely on single (often optimistic) assumptions that what has worked in the past will continue to work. Furthermore, they...
by Lea Strickland | Jun 23, 2025 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Plans, Resources
In 2009, I published an article on Mainstreet.com discussing how to maximize resource flexibility through contracted services. With the recent and ongoing changes in overtime rules, minimum wage rates, IRS rulings on joint employment relationships, and employee...
