by Lea Strickland | Jun 18, 2016 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Management, Business Ownership, Economy and Economics, Leadership, Results
A business danger signs may be ignored or unnoticed, much like a frog in a pot of water on a stove. Yes, I am talking about the the experiment with a frog and a pot of hot water. If you put the frog in the pot and the water is boiling, he hops out fast! But when you...
by Lea Strickland | Jun 6, 2016 | Business Articles, Economy and Economics, Faith Blog, Perspectives
Switzerland Attempts to Decouple Income and Work I am always surprised when life follows fiction (perhaps I shouldn’t be). In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged1 the world stops working and things start falling apart. As the story unfolds, we learn that the governments of the...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Competitiveness, Economy and Economics, Perspectives, Small Business, Start-up
Every day we read the news about higher unemployment rates, lack of job creation, and projections that the outlook is unlikely to change in the near term. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recognizes that the majority of new jobs come from small businesses, and the...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Competitiveness, Economy and Economics, Government Funding Compliance, Perspectives, Small Business, Start-up
The impact of jobs moving overseas (off-shoring) cannot be fully quantified. It includes the impact on employees, the community, tax revenues, and other intangibles. Keeping business in the US isn’t an entitlement. It is and will continue to be a function of...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Competitiveness, Economy and Economics
Today the pace of competition and the facets of competition have never been greater. With the complexity of new markets, more entrants as both customers and competitors, and the need for existing market players to adapt, how businesses have viewed their internal...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Economy and Economics, Government Funding Compliance, Non-Profit, Small Business, Small Business, Start-up
The government is utilizing existing agency structures and federal funding assistance programs to award stimulus funding for research and innovation projects. From the Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services and others, projects are in the...
