Business owners are also consumers. Think about the products and services you purchase for your business operations. If you do not get what you paid for do you know how to negotiate or complain effectively to get results?
Here are some excellent strategies business owners can learn from consumers who have honed this skill
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Negotiating tips businesses can learn from consumers
Business success is more of an obstacle course than a career ladder
See what you can learn from an interview with Barbara J. Krumsiek, chief executive and chairwoman of the Calvert Group Ltd., an investment firm, where Krumsiek reveals that her success in business is more of an obstacle course than a career ladder.
Q. Were there...
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Six ideas to fix the U.S. financial system
Here are six ideas by CNN editor, Allan Sloan, on reigning in Wall Street. See if you agree with him.
Step 1. Demand more skin in the game
Any reform plan worth its salt should greatly increase capital requirements — the amount of money that...
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Wussy regulator defends oversight of failed Washington Mutual
Facing withering attacks for failing to prevent the largest American bank failure ever, a former regulator defended his actions and pushed back against claims that he was too cozy...
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Community banks taking brunt of bursting commercial real estate market
Federal banking regulators closed 23 banks, the highest monthly toll in nearly a year, as the troubled commercial real estate market continues its fallout.
In total, the April bank closings...
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Securities and Exchange Commission files suit for fraud against Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the SEC, which claims the bank created...
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