Hostage Taking

The reaction to a possible U.S. debt ceiling deal reverberated worldwide. For many small businesses, however, that response will be a mixed blessing in the short run.

Without credit, our industry is handcuffed and held hostage -- much like the rest of the economy.

New deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea could create up to $13 billion in new U.S. exports. But their fate hinges on a party-line dispute over a 50-year aid program for workers...

I love QuickBooks. Fast, powerful, full featured. But I also hate QuickBooks. It is anything but simple. Now there are simple dashboards -- online management tools for getting the reports and information you...

The end of my investor relations diplomacy came one evening when he introduced me as "the manager" to a group of eight lawyers and told them what a wonderful job I was doing....

One character flaw of every minimal investor guy: They think they made a major investment. While you were talking macro, they were talking micro and their investment – the lowest possible share available...

Do you allow fear to paralyze you or have you made fear your greatest ally? Does fear hold you hostage, preventing you from being more of who you are and what you want...

PayPal is a favorite payment processor for a lot of home based businesses. Here are a few news tidbits relating to PayPal....

CRM guru Brent Leary clued me in to the sad news that CRM vendor Entellium is going through some rough times. From what I can gather through reading blogs, their sales and marketing...

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Rather than blaming lackluster results on the economy, your salespeople, product or selling process, it is how you manage your team that is in desperate need of reinvention and an overhaul.

Information is power only when the information is shared. Here's some ways to bring your employees in the information age (so to speak)....

How do you stop a young employee from holding you hostage for more money and other "pay"?

Sometimes we're the jerk because we refuse to get along with others. Sometimes getting along with others seems like a huge effort.