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From the Publisher: Turning the “worry button” off and celebrating small accomplishments

- Unfortunately, it's human nature to worry and when the economy is slow these worries are heightened.

Hope is Not a Strategy: A Letter to President Obama

- During the campaign, you offered America hope, and promised to restore a civility and practicality to the nation's highest office so that, together, we could rise to the challenges and opportunities that lay at our doorstep.

Quality and Performance Recognized: A conversation with Ted Gillary, executive manager of the Detroit...

- Early in December 2008, the Detroit Athletic Club achieved a goal established in the late 1990s - to be recognized for its efforts to bring better service to the club's 4,000 members.

Tesla, the Automotive Analysts and the Electrifying Competition

- Corp! spends an electrifying day at the Society of Automotive Analysts conference and at the 2009 NAIAS learning about battery-powered vehicles.

Dennis Archer on the future of mass transit in Michigan and beyond

- Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer has recently been named one of four co-chairs of a bipartisan national transportation policy project that deals with mass transit in addition to other areas of the transportation system.

The New Way to SmartStart Your Business

- Academic institutions are normally the last places entrepreneurs think of as they look for ways to help set up a new business.

Off Deeb End: Unforgivable

- Was the highly political and gutless action of the United States Senate to refuse to assist our nation's auto industry with a bridge loan to help General Motors, Ford and Chrysler survive, the beginning of the end?

Sales Presentation Skills Revisited – Book Review

- Terri Sjodin is the president of Sjodin Communications and is a well-known consultant for sales training and persuasive presentation skills. This new book is a revision of the book she published in 2000.

Recommendations for a Healthy Workplace

- Many people make the promise to jumpstart the year by placing health first. As a physician, I am encouraging women to act on this promise.

Wrong Economic Prescriptions for 2009

- The outgoing Bush White House and the incoming Obama administration appear to be only forward-looking regarding the financial crisis and not honestly evaluating the central reason we are having this economic catastrophe unparalleled in severity since the Great Depression.

Recession Requires ‘And’ Not ‘Or’

- Just this morning, I received two promotional mailings from companies vowing they are "not participating in the recession."

A Conversation with David and The Honorable Wendy Potts – Meshing Politics, Public Service...

- Dave Potts is a well-respected attorney with the law firm of Butzel Long and a second-term member of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.

Business Women Capture the Heart of Go Red – Leaders discuss why movement is...

- According to the American Heart Association, women are twice as likely to die from heart disease then men.

Stay Tuned Real Estate Problems are Going Commercial

- The state of the residential housing market in the Metro Detroit Area is not surprising.

Grabbing a Bigger Slice

Grand Traverse Pie Company continues to thrive in a growing sector of the restaurant business. How does Michigan-made pie make a difference in today's economy? The secret, according to co-founder and president Mike Busley, who returned to Michigan after 15 years in the California aerospace industry, is the pie.

Fuel Efficiency and Fun: Mixing It Up at the ’09 NAIAS

- An invisible banner labeled "high gas prices" will loom over Cobo Center in Detroit when the 2009 North American International Auto Show opens to the public Sat., Jan. 17.

Inforum Inner Circle Brings Michigan’s Influential Women Leaders Together with Future Leaders

- Birmingham, Mich. - Inforum honored 16 successful Michigan business women on Dec. 8, 2008 and gave them the opportunity to help advance the careers of future women leaders through intimate networking.

Why a Liberal Arts Education Will Prepare Students for Tomorrow’s Careers

- Not long ago, the U.S. Department of Labor projected that 80 percent of the children entering kindergarten will eventually enter jobs that don't even exist today!

SBA Chief: Small Business Will Drive Economic Renaissance

- Sandy K. Baruah, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, visited Detroit Dec. 17 to discuss the auto industry's impact on small business, the current economy, what SBA is doing to help small businesses, and how to keep America's entrepreneurs competitive.

Midwest is Home to Exceptional Workplace

- Work Environment at Landscape Forms Fosters Innovative Products Used Around the World

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