A recently published report by the Euromonitor indicates that the world’s biggest beer market in terms of volume sales, china, will overtake the United States in terms of value sale by 2017. China, a nominally socialist country, is poised to become the world’s biggest economy by GDP within the next...

The question I'm most often asked about Twitter is this: “Who is worth following for breaking news & stories?”. Which Twitter handle would you recommend to a friend joining Twitter for accurate, reliable, and efficient news stories? How to stay in touch with news updates? With that in mind, here’s...

Establishing a brand involves more than a logo, a tagline, or physical storefront. In fact, the systems you leverage to run your business, including the forms of payment you accept, can speak volumes about your professionalism as a company — and how consumers perceive it. Here’s what your payment processing...

It’s one thing to create a grand plan to grow your company, it is a whole other thing to get your team consistently executing. The most essential “in the trenches” key to execution is to raise the accountability bar inside your company so that each team member feels like what...

In the course of giving keynotes to large entrepreneurial conferences I often get asked, “David, what’s it really like to sell your company? What do you wish you would have known before you sold that no one told you?” I still remember the sale of my first company roughly 10...

Whether it’s a formal business partnership, a joint venture, or a significant strategic relationship, partnerships can be an incredible source of business leverage. Like all forms of leverage, a partnership’s power can magnify good or bad. Over the years I’ve moved into and out of literally dozens of joint ventures...

The North Carolina State Capitol Raleigh snagged the top spot on Forbes Magazine’s annual list of “the best places for business and careers in 2014," followed by Des Moines, Iowa at no. 2, Provo, Utah coming in third, Denver at no. 4, and Fort Collins at no. 5. These top...

Collaboration among decision-makers drives business growth. Why? Because keeping company executives on the same page ensures that departments are working toward the same goals and their efforts are mutually beneficial. But unfortunately, department heads sometimes become so focused on their individual responsibilities that they lose sight of the organization’s shared...

So what are the barriers which airline CEOs face when looking to expand?  With the global economic realignment and  rising profits, airline chief executives are looking to invest in research and development and planning to go on a hiring spree. However, business leaders are concerned that they will not be...