Village Project helps feed cancer patients and their families
When a Village Project volunteer brings a meal to a cancer patient and his or her family, the kindness doesn’t stop there.
Barb Harrell, executive director of the organization, puts it this way: “The first response when someone is ill is, ‘Can I bring you a meal?’ which is great, but it’s a starting point, not the end.”
Look, up in the sky — It’s the Siegel and Shuster Society and a lesson in intellectual property
This month’s Uniquely Cleveland describes the work of the Siegel and Shuster Society, which was formed some years ago to perpetuate the Superman story and its origins in Cleveland.
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics adapts to change as parent firm marks 350 years
In reality, innovation is everyday people doing the job, thinking about things differently and bringing new light and connections to old problems to find solutions.
Learn to look past outward appearances
Learn to look past outward appearances. You can’t judge a book by its cover.
Three tips on using culture to transform your business
cross-functional teams focused on implementing needed strategies. This special project team, led and comprised of staff members with varying expertise, is an efficient method to implement the ancillary tasks needed to transform your business.
On the other hand, culture can hinder transformation when change is not aligned with the normal strategic flow of business.
If your culture is based heavily on hierarchy, peer-led initiatives may not be the best approach for successful transformation. Instead, develop change strategies to mimic the pulse of the organization such as allowing management to lead projects and include members of their team in the execution stages.
Mediation can help resolve many types of disputes — and avoid lawsuits
A swift, certain resolution to a dispute can provide the parties with “peace of mind” and the chance to “get on with their lives” without the threat of a future trial date hanging over their heads.
Rubbing elbows with diverse people is not just for entrepreneurs
I constantly push the rest of my team at networking opportunities. My associates, like my partners, are buried doing filings, meeting clients across a spectrum of circumstances and traveling across the country. They appear with and speak for corporate and individual clients in court or with other officials. Their noses are as close to the grindstone as mine. So I encourage them to rub elbows with diverse folk, both potential clients and others.
The art of decision-making may boil down to assessing your instincts
Do Mal Mixon’s experiences ever trump data?
Why entrepreneurs should not see social media as an Internet curse, but respect them
You’ve probably heard that a good, healthy respect for social media and an online presence is critical — it affect you personally, it will affect your business, your employees, potential employees and perhaps most critically, your clientele.
Investing: It’s not supposed to be easy
Superior investment results can only stem from a better-than-average ability to figure out when risk taking will lead to gain and when it will lead to loss. There is no alternative, but by definition, only a very small percentage of investors possess superior skill. In the end, according to Marks, there’s only one absolute truth about investing: It isn’t easy.