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Trump Accounts begin to auto-enroll children for long-term investment
With the launching of Trump Accounts–a new, tax-deferred investing option for children geared toward retirement and intended to build long-term wealth–earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Treasury has now begun auto-enrolling…
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U.S. deploys third aircraft carrier to Middle East, continues military buildup
In what could be the clearest sign of renewed attacks on Iran, the U.S. military is dispatching 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, including a third aircraft…
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The Best Signal in Our Leadership Program Was Who Signed Up Second
Companies measure it at the end. Completion rates, satisfaction scores, a survey that asks people whether they found it valuable while the facilitator is still in the room. Everyone says yes. The…
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The Missed Call Is an Operations Problem, Not Just a Phone Problem
A plumber may be under a sink when the phone rings. A stylist may be halfway through an appointment. An accountant may be sitting with a client or trying to finish a…
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You Do Not Need a Bigger Budget. You Need a Sharper Offer
I have watched small and mid sized companies try to compete with market leaders by copying their marketing playbook: broad ad spend across every channel, generic messaging meant to appeal to everyone,…
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Would Your Business Run Without You for a Month? A Buyer’s View of Succession
I have bought companies. I have also sold companies, and built others from nothing into businesses that did more than NT$2 billion in cumulative e-commerce revenue over more than a decade, at…
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How Small and Mid-Size Businesses Can Build a Marketing Strategy Without Wasting Budget
For small and mid-size businesses, the hardest marketing decision is rarely what to spend. It’s what not to spend. With 15+ years running marketing and communications for both global brands and independent…
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Jump in bond yields push mortgage, lending rates higher
The housing market took another downward turn last week, as the fixed rate for a 30-year mortgage rose to 7.18%, with some larger lenders charging as much as 7.37%. Due to increasing…
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The Succession Question Nobody Asks a Small Business: Who Approves the Work When You Are Gone?
TLDR: Most succession planning for small businesses is written about ownership, and ownership is the easy part. The harder question is who holds the standard for what leaves the building, because in…
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The Technology Decision That’s Costing Your Business More Than You Think
There is a category of business expense that most small and medium business owners never review. It sits quietly on the credit card statement every month, often split across multiple cards and…
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Succession Transfers Judgment, Not Tasks
Most succession planning is built around the things that can be written down. Valuation, ownership structure, signing authority, who talks to the bank. That work is necessary and it is also the…
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Trump and Xi wrap up White House visit with great spectacle, little substance
For the second time this year, President Donald Trump sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a White House gathering high on pageantry but low on substance. The two heads of…
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Trump talks tough at UN, predicts deal with Iran after election
Nearly 130 world leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week to discuss issues ranging from the wars in Ukraine and Iran to the environment to the…
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The Year We Had Buyers and Nothing to Sell Them: A Strategic Marketing Correction
TLDR: Our brokerage spent two years building marketing that reliably produced buyers, then realized the thing we were short of was property to show them. The strategic marketing fix was not a…
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Cash Flow First: How Small Businesses Can Use Debt Without Getting Buried by It
Most small-business owners obsess over revenue and profit. But the businesses that fail rarely fail because they weren’t profitable on paper — they fail because they ran out of cash at the…
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Hiring for a Job No One Supervises: Retention in Vacation-Rental Turnover Cleaning
Turnover cleaning for Airbnb and VRBO properties has a structural problem most hiring advice ignores: the person you hire works alone, inside someone else’s home, on a clock set by a guest’s…
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AI Can Multiply Your Voice. It Cannot Create Silent Authority Thought Leadership
Now almost any leader can produce a polished article or keynote before breakfast. The language sounds intelligent, the structure is clean and the conclusion arrives exactly where you expect it. The real…
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High profile hackers claim theft of FBI data
The digital extortion group ShinyHunters went public Tuesday with the brazen claim that it hacked into a Federal Bureau of Investigation data center and stole sensitive information belonging to a huge number…
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The Cash Flow Mistake That Makes Profitable Small Businesses Fail
That sounds contradictory, but it is one of the most important financial realities small-business owners need to understand. Profit measures whether a business generated more revenue than expenses over a particular period.…
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Learning to Lead in the Eye of the Storm
Growing up in Oklahoma, you don’t just watch the weather. You live it. My grandpa was a farmer, and to him, reading the sky wasn’t a hobby. It was survival. If a…
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Your Business Can Be Profitable and Still Run Out of Cash
When your company hits profitable targets at the end of a quarter, you should feel good about the report your team submitted. That feeling of accomplishment may be short-lived because if it…
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5 Organizational Habits That Make You a Better Leader for Your Business
As a professional organizer and business owner, I spend a lot of time helping people become more organized in their homes. But many of the same habits that make a home run…
