Call me Bruce X and heed me well. In an earlier incarnation, I used to be just like you – sprinting along the pathway of my strategically chosen career. I wanted to have it all, and I was intent...
In the fall of 2003, six months before founding Cedarcrest, I was on a mission to start my company. I just had not decided what kind of company. On a Saturday in September I bought every entrepreneurial business magazine I...
Much of my early childhood was spent on a farm in Oklahoma in a sort of communal environment. There was my foster father, Daddy Red, his wife, Momma Mae, her brother, Homer, his son, Ronnie, an adopted son, Tuffy, a...
Joe is a leader in implementing truly integrated marketing communications (IMC). He has made it work by abolishing all agency departments (silos) and organizing in self-directed, client-centered, cross-functional teams. These teams, draw on feedback from the entire agency, approach marcom...
Small business is the engine of our economy. Each small business owner contributes horsepower. I have been a piston in this engine since 2003. When I was asked to write about how my business began, my first reflex was to...
A couple of years ago, I had the zany idea that I wanted to open a home furnishings store. It didn’t quite come from thin air: I was a graphic designer who had been unofficially studying interior design for some...
I just completed meetings with two Arizona state congressmen to discuss federal legislation that would encourage the use of residential wind energy systems in homes across the US. I’m now on my way to St. Louis where I’ll meet US...
When I used to think about small business owners I certainly didn't think of someone like myself. I spent most of my college years listening to bad jam bands and working in a printmaking studio trying to figure out how...
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