by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 28, 2011
Give yourself a gift this holiday season that will magnify your voice and your influence. For the millions of small- and medium-sized businesses in America, the machinations that take place inside the Washington beltway may feel like stories of aliens on another...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 22, 2011
This holiday season, think beyond yourself – and think beyond wasting money on stuff you don’t really need. Instead, consider helping someone who really needs the help. Like homeless children in the US – in your own state or community. This is a population without a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 20, 2011
Al Gore and David Blood, his partner in the multi-billion private equity fund, Generation Investment Management, recently opined on “How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics,” on the Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal, an unlikely...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 1, 2011
If anything is going to jump start America, it may just be the new generation of entrepreneurs. I say that because I just spent time in Kansas City as a speaker and mentor at the Youth Entrepreneurship Summit 2011, hosted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 11, 2011
First, 7 things to remind yourself of every day: Your passion: Only do what you’re deeply passionate about. There will not only be bumps in the road, but trenches that look like they have no bottom. If you’re not doing what you love, there will be too many...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 7, 2011
Last week, my recently launched consulting firms –Jeffrey Hollender Partners and CommonWise – hosted the senior leadership team of the Mondragon Cooperative Cooperation for a discussion about the role cooperatives can play in addressing the social and economic...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 3, 2011
The implications of the US government annually investing 90% less than the Chinese have in developing and manufacturing alternative energy technology has doomed America to lose the battle for the energy future. While we bemoan the loss of a $527 million federal loan...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 17, 2011
John Fullerton, a friend and the founder of The Capital Institute, celebrated Labor Day with some thoughtful ways to create more jobs – now. Here’s the challenge we face as defined by Fullerton: “To create 7 to 10 million net new jobs in the United States over the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 5, 2011
In September, Don Peck, writing in The Atlantic, provided an exceptionally thoughtful and detailed analysis of the fate of the middle class. What has contributed to its emergence as the economic and political foundation of American life? What has transpired to put its...
