The commercial real estate market was ravaged by the down economy, although it didn’t make disaster headlines like its residential counterpart. There was a day when the metropolitan Phoenix area was tops when it came to building companies expanding and actual construction of commercial projects here in the Valley. Office space, multi-tenant and industrial projects were at … [More]
Today’s Global Society: How Are Arizona Businesses Getting a Piece of It?
Attorney Karen Dickinson recalls the earlier days of her career when she traveled on business from Arizona to other countries. “I spent most of my career with people saying, ‘You’re from where?’” she recalls. Not exactly what anyone would want to hear after a flight to the other side of the world. She even found it challenging to build her credibility simply because she was … [More]
Building Small Business
The many cities and towns that make up the Valley of the Sun may be diverse in their geography and population size, but they do share one goal in common: growing and supporting their small businesses. The Phoenix metropolitan area is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity and without a doubt contributed to Arizona’s recent ranking by the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity … [More]
The Growing Skills Gap
Know someone out of work? With the unemployment rate lingering at 8.5 percent nationally, the surprising fact is, in the last six months, a large portion of the 3.5 million job openings across the country have gone unfilled for months. How does this jibe with the reality that 40 percent of the unemployed have been without work for a year or longer? Blame it on a skills gap. … [More]
Empower Your Business
By now, you have adopted all seven habits of highly effective people, know how to win friends and influence people, and are still trying to think and grow rich. Still, if you’re like most business owners, you’re just too busy to read all the great self-help business books, attend all of your industry’s top conferences and keep track of the latest words of wisdom dispelled by … [More]
