Remembering Your Name

Five years ago, my first college reunion, the 25th anniversary of the graduation of the Yale Class of 1982, changed my life. You've read about that. This weekend, I returned for the next one, the 30th Reunion. A smaller affair — the 25th is always The Big One —...

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Welcome to Net Cotton Content. If you like reading Business First, you will like Net Cotton Content. Or not. They are really nothing like each other.  Business First is all about up-to-date reporting of business news and trends in central Ohio. Net Cotton...

A Message from the Job Creators

Are you an employee? What does your employer owe you? To what are you entitled? Are you an employer? What does your employee owe you? To what are you entitled? Pay DayMy former business partner distributed the paychecks every other Friday. He'd say, as he handed...

Oh, California.

There's nothing like a trip to California to cause a refinement and readjustment of my beliefs and values. Last weekend provided an opportunity to ask 28 other Vistage chairs to challenge gaps between my beliefs and my behaviors. One of those gaps: spending too...

Drowning in Survival

On the Death of SpeakerSiteI long thought that the best thing to happen in business was big growth and profit. I still do. I long thought that the second best thing to happen in business was survival — and the worst thing was going out of business. I have re-ordered...