I don’t WANT to talk about health insurance. But if  I get hit by a bus it’s going to be top of mind. For entrepreneurs, getting health insurance is monumental. We can either: A) Pay through the nose. B) Marry it. C) Do without it. E) Get Cobra and when it runs out panic F) [...]

Liz Strauss has had the courage to voice who she is in a whisper heard round the world. The foremost businesswoman on Twitter, she has refused to accept business as usual. Like thought leaders before us, in the privacy of her own observations she has understood the contributions of individuals, small companies and corporations and [...]

Standing on the edge of tomorrow, seated at my work table and surrounded by fellow travelers, leaders and visionaries, I heard that “Success is a direction – forward” @SandersSays. That the bravery of our individualism is evolutionary and expressed through a Body of Work (“BOW”),  @SteveFarber. I learned it is up to us to “decide” [...]

There are 27,000 current members in Linked n Chicago, thousands of members & friends of Big Ooga, Local First, BNC, Evanston Chamber, West Suburban Chamber, the Naperville LinkedIn Business Group and the Evanston / North Shore Business Group. Among them, the owners, founders, leaders, volunteers and members share a common vision, to create a working, [...]

Cover via Amazon Most of us met Phase I of the recession with disbelief.  How do you wrap your head around a meltdown when you’re coming off a best year yet?  We were all in this sunny swimming pool of prosperity, splashing in warm, blue water when suddenly it was drained.  There we stood, wet [...]

Image by State Library and Archives of Florida via Flickr We are all travelers in the great unknown called tomorrow. Freezing is as dangerous as melting down.  Withering disintegrates our brands and innovating builds them.  But how do you know in what direction to move?  What risk to take? And to know we must?  In [...]