Growing Your Business by Growing Your Skills

Growing Your Business by Growing Your Skills

Dec 9, 2024 | Lifestyle

I am an attorney and trusted professional advocate for small businesses and entrepreneurs. My article, first published in September 2024, is particularly useful as we move toward starting a brand-new year. Each of us will generally pledge to do some things differently...
Refueling the Engine of the US Economy

Refueling the Engine of the US Economy

Dec 1, 2024 | Featured

This article examines the crucial yet often underappreciated role of 1099 contractors, contingent workers, and micro and small enterprises that fuel the nation’s economy. The U.S. economy is a complex mosaic of businesses of all sizes, from large national and...
Strategic Simplicity

Strategic Simplicity

Nov 26, 2024 | Featured

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit with personal friend and Internation Business Coach/Strategist, Tony Jeary. Tony is known as “The Results Guy” by those who have benefited from his wisdom and experience in successfully helping clients reduce complexity to...
Why Most Entrepreneurs Start Businesses

Why Most Entrepreneurs Start Businesses

Nov 18, 2024 | Start A Business

To understand why entrepreneurs take the risk of starting their own businesses, it helps to go directly to the source. Many surveys and researchers have delved into what compels individuals to embark on the often challenging path to entrepreneurship, with some...
Identity Leadership Is Where Leadership Starts

Identity Leadership Is Where Leadership Starts

Nov 15, 2024 | Featured

Regardless of the micro entrepreneurial pathway you may have chosen, the knowledge conveyed in this, and future articles is universal. You will learn more about my focus on Identity Leadership and the Nine Step Plan for Success which is the focus of my many books,...
Democrat and Republican Small Business Owners Agree

Democrat and Republican Small Business Owners Agree

Nov 11, 2024 | Hiring And Labor

Overall, small businesses express little confidence in current business policies and policy-making. Almost three-quarters (73%) believe these policies favor large companies over small businesses. This sentiment spans political affiliations, with 79% of Republican and...
The New Culture of Independent Entrepreneurship

The New Culture of Independent Entrepreneurship

Nov 1, 2024 | Featured

Peter Drucker, the world renown, preeminent business management consultant, educator, and author, shared the following popular quote: “The best way to predict the future is to create it” Drucker is also quoted as saying: “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” When we...
Identity Leadership

Identity Leadership

Oct 16, 2024 | Inspiration

Identity leadership is very important to me. It’s a topic that is relevant to the 7.7 billion people living today. Identity leadership is self-leadership, and it is based on the philosophy that if you can’t lead yourself, you can’t lead anyone else. Leadership, or...
Introducing Stedman Graham

Introducing Stedman Graham

Oct 15, 2024 | Featured

Stedman Graham is one of the world’s leading authorities on emotional intelligence. Individuals have engaged Stedman Graham, the largest of corporations and governments throughout the world, all of whom realize that success, at any level, actually starts with people...
Good News

Good News

Oct 4, 2024 | Finance

Small business owners are collectively breathing a sigh of relief at the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates. CNBC and SurveyMonkey’s Small Business Survey for Q3 found that owners said lower interest rates will lead them to increase investments, expand...
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

Oct 2, 2024 | Gig Economy

Back to the Future, was a movie some of us may remember. The title was most appropriate for the science fiction story. However, back to the future has never been a good business strategy. This perspective is dedicated to the future of work. We might add that the...
Trends to Watch

Trends to Watch

Oct 1, 2024 | Featured

Individual Entrepreneurship will become more and more popular. The gig economy is forecasted to continue to grow (65 million plus are already involved) becoming even more appealing to those who seek flexibility and freedom in how underutilized assets, time,...
What Matters Most?

What Matters Most?

Sep 15, 2024 | Featured

As an independent contractor, micro entrepreneur, you make choices every day as to what matters most. Those choices impact the results associated with your efforts. The goal is to always maximize the “Return on Opportunity.” The phrase, Return on Investment (R.O.I.)...
Simplicity is a Strategy

Simplicity is a Strategy

Sep 2, 2024 | Inspiration

Simplicity is a strategy, however, as easy as the four words are to repeat, execution is always very challenging. This article introduces the reader to the most powerful and executable strategy for sharing with others the main ingredients of your business, venture, or...