6 Most Recent Articles
Written By: Martin Harshberger

1	Many Fail To Plan, More Fail To Execute! Written by: Martin Harshberger | Distributed: 2010-02-09 | - Word Count: 744 | Viewed: 792 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 5.00 As the owner, CEO or senior executive of a business, you share many things in common with the coaches of professional sports teams. Can you imagine the head coach of a team - say in the National Football League - going into a game without a game plan? Of course not! That coach would soon be out of work. Coaches literally spend hundreds hours preparing for a 60-minute event.
2	The A Word: Accountability Written by: Martin Harshberger | Distributed: 2010-02-02 | - Word Count: 578 | Viewed: 641 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 2.50 My 35 plus years of experience has proven that the majority of executives simply will not or cannot do the things that are necessary to succeed...
3	Obama Tells the Banks to Lend! Written by: Martin Harshberger | Distributed: 2010-01-26 | - Word Count: 641 | Viewed: 728 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 2.50 Any kind of real recovery and job creation is impossible without access to credit by small to mid-sized businesses. New entrepreneurs, and even experienced business people, often ask me to help them write plans to get SBA financing for a new or troubled venture. I tell them it just doesn't happen that way. The SBA, USDA, and most other federal loan programs simply guarantee bank loans. You have to get the bank to approve your loan first. But banks are not in the venture capital business. They want secure loans.
4	Strategic Planning Starts With Your Vision for Your Company Written by: Martin Harshberger | Distributed: 2010-01-19 | - Word Count: 834 | Viewed: 622 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 3.00 What role does vision play in the development of your business plan? If you listen to Jack Welch it's a big role. Step #1 in the planning process: Clarify and document your vision...
5	Can the US Furniture Industry Compete Globally? Written by: Martin Harshberger | Distributed: 2010-01-14 | - Word Count: 699 | Viewed: 865 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 2.00 I witnessed the decline of the U.S. Steel Industry first hand. I also participated in the rapid market shifts in the computer and high-tech manufacturing industries. There are many parallels with the furniture industry and those industries. So to answer the question, can the U.S. Furniture Industry compete globally? YES and NO!
6	Can Acquisitions Work? Written by: Martin Harshberger | Distributed: 2010-01-12 | - Word Count: 858 | Viewed: 763 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 3.00 With annual merger and acquisition activity in the United States averaging about 1.5 trillion dollars the question, "Can Acquisitions Work?" may seem to be uninformed and strange question. Yet according to a number of recent academic studies, between 55 percent and 83 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail to add value to the acquirers... This article will review some of the reasons why acquisitions fail...