What Businesses Need to Know About Sequestration

What Businesses Need to Know About Sequestration

Though we typically think of sequestration as a government problem caused by a “poison pill” approach to resolving Federal deficit spending, its potential impact on business owners could be devastating.  Mainstream Management’s Laurie Brunner discusses the negative effects these unstructured cuts will have on economic growth, if a resolution is more »

The Real Cost of that Pool Toy

The Real Cost of that Pool Toy

My cell phone rang. A simple question from a friend: “You’ve worked in China. Can you recommend a manufacturer to produce my patented pool toy?” Ordinarily, rattling off potential Chinese producers would have been easy. But, having just spent a week touring U.S. manufacturing facilities in Ohio, I dramatically altered more »

Couch Potato Leadership

Couch Potato Leadership

If you are like any one of the nearly 110 million viewers that tuned in for Sunday evening’s Super Bowl, you enjoyed plenty of couch time.  The prediction for the big game:  1.25 billion chicken wings consumed, washed down by 50 million cases of beer.  In just the first 90 more »