From CNN Money: Why Occupy Wall Street Isn’t About a List of Demands This CNN Money article argues that lacking focus is not a problem for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ because it’s primary goal is to get attention. While this is somewhat true, an opportunity is being squandered by lacking a message: The protests have been effective …
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Have you ever gotten pissed at your car for not starting when you were running late for a meeting? Or maybe it was your coffee maker for brewing a room temperature pot? When they don’t do what they’re supposed to, even inanimate machines will incite emotions like anger, rage, or contempt; things that are usually …
Last Thursday the National Middle Market Summit kicked off. Bankrolled by the likes of GE Capital and Fed Ex, “Leading from the Middle” attempted to bring more visibility to the ‘mid-market companies’ defined as firms with revenues between $10 million and $1 billion. Among the A-list speakers were GE CEO and Obama ‘Jobs Czar’ Jeff …
From Businessweek: Make the Next Bailout Serve Small Business It’s an oldie, but still very relevant. Why has there been such a huge failure by the architects of the these bailouts at making them work for small and medium businesses? Mr. Shane talks about a number of problems with trying to target the bail out billions …
From The Wall Street Journal: Spotlight Shines On Mid-Sized Firms Are mid-sized firms the ignored middle child of the US economy? That’s what this recent WSJ article argues; and it highlights a new summit going on at Ohio State this week. The “Middle Market Summit” is being bankrolled by a number of large companies (GE and …
