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A Look Inside Vistage

Check out this video where we assembled a group of CEOs and business owners and recorded the meeting to show you what it’s like to be part of a Vistage peer advisory group.

Let’s Talk Podcasts

Take a listen to my Let’s Talk! podcast archives for some interesting discussions with entrepreneurs and business owners.

Help Your Employees Lawyer Up

Employers are exploring every option to attract, satisfy and retain employees. A company’s benefit package plays a key role here. Health, vacation, disability, PTO, vacation are all parts of the benefits package that need to be competitive. But there’s one benefit that you might consider that is becoming increasingly popular. You offer a health plan.  How […]

The Gaps in Your Game

This time of year is characterized by the holidays and companies engaging in the annual strategic planning process. The heart of the process is creating a strategy that the plan will execute. But do you have a strategy for creating a strategy? Do you have a “plan to plan?” Vistage Strategy speaker Marc Emmer does and in a […]

Norman Lear, Entrepreneur

The pace of change in the past two hundred years would not have been possible without the remarkable advances in communication that began with the telegraph in the 1840s, followed by the telephone, radio, and television. The last two, radio and TV,  in particular accelerated change as it permitted mass communication for the first time […]

Seconds, Anyone?

The concept of “second order” effects got a real boost from the sudden impact of Covid. For example, the pandemic kept us at home; those who could work from him did;  those who did often decided to move out of the urban core or to a different state (or country). There are many other examples. The […]

Coming Attractions

Vistage Webinars and Vistage Events (open to non-members) Special Events and Offerings: Preserving your Legacy Wealth on Friday, December 15 (open to non-members). Vistage speaker Hillel Presser. “This webinar will allow participants to consider the specific steps they should take while growing and securing their wealth. As we live in a litigious society, it is important that for […]

For Our Friends Outside the Vistage Family

These webinars from Vistage Research are available to Vistage Members and Non-members alike.Cutting-Edge Decision-Making Resources from Vistage ResearchEvents open to Members and non-Members

Econ Recon

Retail Details: If there’s one time of the year associated with the retail sector it’s the Christmas holidays. Despite the ongoing warnings of a recession, this year’s Black Friday saw record breaking sales of $9.8 Billion, an increase of 7.5 over 2022’s levels. The retail sector constitutes nearly 2/3s of GDP so it’s important to understand what […]

Seinfeld on Entrepreneurship

We don’t usually think of comedians as entrepreneurs, but if entrepreneurship is doing some new successfully, Jerry Seinfeld clearly fits the bill.   In a recent Inc Magazine article, Mr. Seinfeld’s approach to creating value (comedy) is summarized as “three keys to success which, not coincidentally, are the three keys to entrepreneurial success, and success in any field.“ Check […]

“Setbacks and Comebacks”

The only thing better than one great Vistage Speaker is TWO great Vistage Speakers at the same time, so I hope you’ll take a short break for a fun and enlightening podcast bringing together two of our best! Kathleen Quinn Votaw and Sandy Gennaro. Kathleen is one of the country’s leading experts on recruiting and talks to Vistage Groups across […]

“Mightily American”

I try to feature items in this newsletter that perhaps aren’t getting the press they deserve. The phenomenal Taylor Swift hardly needs any help from me in that regard. It’s been said that her tours have become “an economic phenomenon that is totally altering the rules of entertainment economics.” If you’re looking for a reason why, […]