by Lea Strickland | Jun 20, 2025 | Business Articles, Perspectives
Core Values Underpinning Strength America’s historical strength lies in its shared commitment to core values: democracy and personal freedom as inviolable, private property, enterprise as widely supported, and free-market capitalism, competition, and limited...
by Lea Strickland | May 6, 2025 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Capability, Change Management, Competitiveness, Economy and Economics, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Small Business, Small Business, Viability
Trump’s tariffs and economic strategy have refashioned the global trade landscape. These tariffs have sent ripples (and, for some, tsunami-like waves) through markets, creating challenges and opportunities. For U.S. businesses, small and large, these tariffs...
by Lea Strickland | May 19, 2020 | Business Management, Competitiveness, Strategy, Viability, Visibility
The Nature of Coyotes If asked, you would probably express a negative view of coyotes. However, coyotes have many admirable characteristics. Most notably, the coyote can adapt to thrive in most environments and habitats. We can learn a lot from the coyote and apply...
by Lea Strickland | Jan 1, 2016 | Business Articles, Competitiveness, Customer, Customer Relationships, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Opportunity, Other Podcasts, Strategy, Visibility
Introduction: David Wright interviewed me sometime ago on marketing strategies. I emphasized the critical role of educating your market to build credibility, visibility, and trust. Below is the revised version, incorporating more explicit language, modern context, and...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Competitiveness, Customer, Opportunity, Small Business, Start-up, Visibility
The world is not objective. It is composed of people, and people are human (at least most of us are). People are at our most basic emotional and relationship-based. We do deploy our logical minds to override and control much of our instinctual behavior and that also...
