A culture of innovation is crucial for business success
I suggest these methods to facilitate different ways to think about innovation, remembering that it can start with your organization’s existing products or processes.
Sacrificial decisions: Here are three mid-year goal-setting tips for leaders
If you’re feeling some anxiety or struggle about achieving goals that you set earlier in the year, here’s my advice for relieving that pressure: fail fast and avoid the drama. Just avoid making goals altogether. Seriously, you ask?
Ohio needs immigration reform — not massive deportations
The 2016 election season has me riveted. I’ll not waiver on my chosen candidate, but the person many are rooting for has charisma and some very positive experience. Did you hear that 13-year-old girl on America’s Got Talent? She compares her qualification to be a baby-sitter as having been a baby to Donald Trump’s qualification […]
Uniquely Cleveland — Cleveland Botanical Gardens Glasshouse
OTHER WORLDLY Cleveland Botanical Garden Glasshouse: Tropical and desert environments reside side-by-side to ‘wow’ visitors There are some things that visitors to the Cleveland Botanical Garden aren’t likely to forget. Not only does the entire 10-acre collection rank high, but so does the Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse where contrasting parts represent the topical forest of […]
Keeping electricity flowing during outages not a problem for LTI Power Systems
LTI Power Systems has 20 employees, making it a smaller company as definitions go, but some of its customers are the biggest around. And they bring with them big challenges. The company provides uninterruptible power systems, inverters and power protection products for the New York City Subway system, Chicago O’Hare International Airport, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline […]
The 2016 Business Longevity Awards
Reaching a milestone event, such as celebrating 50 years in operation, signifies you’ve accomplished something few others have.
Hitting 75, 100 or even 150 years? That’s even more impressive.
That’s why Smart Business has launched the inaugural Business Longevity Awards
What many students may take for granted, others appreciate the basics from Kids in Need
Building Stronger Communities Kathy Hirko remembers well how she was inspired to help found in 2001 the Kids in Need Resource Center in Cleveland. She was attending the grand opening in Washington, D.C., of a new resource center for the Kids in Need Foundation, a national charitable organization founded in 1995 to distribute school supplies […]
Give yourself the chance to dream the impossible dream
What’s your impossible dream? Perhaps a better question is when was the last time you stepped away from the day-to-day challenges of running your business to allow yourself the opportunity to dream?
Effort to set $15 an hour as the standard lacks thorough planning
Business groups, civic groups, constituencies of all types have come out against this minimum wage initiative. This feels a lot like the marijuana legalization issue last year when everyone with any common sense was against it, but a few special interests that stood to gain a lot pushed forward anyway.
Workplace culture philosophy: value the team, take time for people
our accomplishments at St. Elizabeth are due to the efforts of our entire team, including senior administrators, nurses, physicians, office managers, associates working in the gift shop and cafeterias, and all associates and volunteers in between.