Winning behaviors of effective acquirers
While a well-executed acquisition strategy can drive limitless upside, realizing these outcomes requires adept buyer behavior.
CEOs must lead their company’s technological charge
Technology comes for all of our businesses. By embracing change and staying current, these innovations can add fuel to your fire.
Tips for hiring in a candidate-driven market
Action Management Services’ Sandy Darnell on today’s candidate-driven market and how it affects companies’ focus throughout the recruiting process.
Building a strong relationship with your business banker
First Federal Lakewood’s Matthew Lay on how business owners can strengthen their relationship with their business banker and how it can benefit them.
How to mitigate today’s ever-increasing cybersecurity threats
Blue Technologies, Inc.’s Cristina Alati on cybersecurity hygiene — what it means and how companies can achieve it as they work to protect their business against increasingly sophisticated and frequent cyber threats.
How HR audits help organizations improve
Clark Schaefer Hackett’s Robin Throckmorton and Patti Dunham on HR audits, what they look to accomplish and why.
How CEO Michael Hoy is building Great Day Improvements into a national powerhouse

Having recently surpassed $1 billion in revenue, Michael Hoy is managing Great Day Improvements’ rapid growth by rallying his team of nearly 2,700 employees around his vision.
Northeast Ohio Deal Activity: Signs of M&A optimism in the lower middle market

While megadeals have become scarcer in today’s economic landscape, M&A activity for smaller deals within the middle market are more favorable.
Bowden Manufacturing combated a workforce shortage by changing a job title

How does a manufacturing shop combat an ongoing machinist shortage? The answer at Bowden Manufacturing was to stop calling them machinists.
Unleashing the wide-ranging powers of generosity
Better outcomes, better communities and better feelings. Those are a few reasons I’ve long believed in the transformative power of giving.