Company Growth Comes from Inspiring Innovation

The Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating article today entitled “Who Has Innovative Ideas? Employees,” which stated that “Most great ideas for enhancing corporate growth and profits from the people who daily fight the company’s battles, who serve the customers, explore new markets and fend off the competition.” Namely, the employees. According to the authors, [...]

Blogging as a Business Strategy

Blogging – when done the right way – is a fantastic business strategy for small business. Through blogging, small businesses have the ability to increase their presence online, expand their reach and customer base through viral marketing and growing readership, and create a “big box” presence by contributing content and ideas to the online marketplace. [...]

Tips for Small Businesses to Survive the Downturn

Many small businesses are concerned entering 2009. Are they going to survive? Will they be able to attract new business? Will their current business remain steady? Now more than ever, it is important for small businesses to go back to their roots, and focus on their core competencies and messaging. As one of my favorite [...]

Tips for Business Change

At all times, and cetainly now in uncertain economic conditions, businesses have to have the flexibility, scalability and agility to adjust and adapt to changing circumstances. Rigid corporate structures and the inability to act quickly can spell defeat for companies who need to be running lean and mean in the current recession. This recent column [...]

Corporate Lessons and Success Strategies Learned From the AIG Buyout

The current water cooler buzz seems to be ringing with the financial distress surrounding AIG, Merrill Lynch and Lehmann Brothers. What business lessons can be learned from the respective companies’ financial disappointments, and how can you turn what may be deemed a failure into a lesson of success for your business? As evidenced in this [...]

How to Pay it Forward

One of the less celebrated aspects of business and professional success is the human element – having integrity and ethics in everything you do, and looking for ways to serve others in both your personal and professional worlds. At CPS, one of the things we believe in most for professional success is the concept of [...]