The Powerball lottery, as of today, is sitting comfortably at $1.5 billion. Whoa! And if your office is anything like ours, your co-workers are already discussing how they’re going to…
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There’s much ado about millennials these days. For some they’re nothing more than a generation of selfie-obsessed, video-gaming freeloaders who are absorbed with the idea that work gets in the…
Like many of you, I travel – A LOT. Airports are like my second home. Every flight presents a new opportunity to finish up a report, read a book or…
It’s the end of an era for fruit and veggie wholesaler Malcom Hicks, who closed down his father’s 95-year-old business as he retired last week. Harold Hicks Ltd was a…
Eva Gabor’s “Green Acres” TV sitcom character, Lisa Douglas, may have had it right almost 50 years ago: “Farm living’s not the life for me.” Today, only 15% of the…
As anybody who watches the “Twilight” movies knows, vampires live forever. In reality, of course, the actors portraying the characters are as mortal as anyone. And the enterprises led by…
Operating a business can be stressful; and when that business is family owned, there can be heighten stress and conflict brought on by the intangibles. For example, I see a…
Years after working in his father’s shoe repair shop, George Vlagos has returned to his roots and is carrying on the family business with his own shoe-making business, Oak Street…
Ford Motor Company is doing CEO succession right. On May 1 they announced that Mark Fields, a 25-year company veteran, will replace Alan Mulally as CEO and President, effective July…
Eric Bassett, 20, started working for his family’s business, Bassetts Ice Cream, in Philadelphia when he was only 15 years old. The company has been in business since 1861 when…