Financial Eyes & Ears

It’s lonely at the top, according to a new survey that found fully half of all chief executives suffer from isolation and loneliness. When starting a business, many young entrepreneurs dream of the day when the enterprise has grown and they sit atop a successful company as CEO. This makes sense. CEOs are well compensated [...]

Dont goose near-term results at the expense of long-term value creation. Last fall, Forbes.com published an article that reviews the book Fixing the Game by Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. In our initial comments on that article we made the case that creating sustainable shareholder value [...]

Hit a performance wall? Here are four ways to break through it. You’re good. You could be better. Consider a skill you’ve developed: Business, sports, personal, anything. At first you were terrible. Terrible is a great place to start because improving on terrible is easy. With a little practice you turned terrible into mediocre. And [...]

After spending over 200 days on a cruise ship, Sixthman founder Andy Levine offers his perspective on what happened on the Costa Concordia. I am probably one of the few 41 year olds who has been on over 50 cruises in my lifetime and was actually on a cruise last weekend when the news of [...]

Hint: It’s harder than it sounds. Here’s how we make it work, and stay happy while running a successful business. The old adage says, “You shouldn’t mix business with family.” That especially stands when it comes to spouses working together, and I would generally agree with that statement. However, there are instances when business and [...]

Just when you thought it was hard enough to remain creditworthy as a small business owner or solopreneur, a new report published at American Banker highlights a potential banking trend that could change the way credit is built and maintained. According to the report that discusses nine trends affecting risk software in the banking industry, [...]

The best chairman or chairwoman is a mentor, sounding board, and listener. If you’re constructing an advisory board for your business, you need to be clear about its role and judicious in the choice and range of directors. But there’s no decision more important than who leads your meetings. This can’t be you. Why not? [...]

Tim Tebow isn’t perfect. But he has personality traits that you should look for when you’re staffing up. You know you’ve made it into the mainstream when your last name has been turned into a verb and Saturday Night Live features you in a skit. Tim Tebow, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos, has become [...]