Ideas

As the manufacturing industry leads the country out of this economic downturn, I'm struck by a couple of interesting...

Recently I read an article proposing that the majority of so-called "leaders" today are very good at maintaining the status quo, and that very few are actually demonstrating true leadership by taking a stand, by being creative and innovative, by risking ridicule.

The economic climate today continues to challenge leaders beyond what might be defined as reasonable. Can leadership habits constructed in a more stable economy become a liability?

Forgive me! I've written about seek mode before, and I've probably even told the following story at some point in these pages.

My thanks this month to Keith Styles, partner at Arent Fox LLP, a Washington, D.C., law firm with expertise in corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, public-private partnerships and joint ventures, for his timely insights.

For several years, the unemployment of Americans in the United States has been very high and is steadily increasing....

By our latest count, there are 43 different interest groups spending money like crazy to influence the outcome of...

In several states, candidates hoisted by members of the Tea Party beat candidates supported by the Republican Party establishment...

The train starts to pick up speed, almost imperceptibly, and within 20 minutes the Eurostar high-speed train has left...

Editor's note: Author Jeff Matthews will be the keynote speaker at the BizTimes Wealth Management Summit to take place...