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VIEWPOINT: Medical-Insurance Planning for a Healthy Practice in 2021
With the coronavirus pandemic accelerating a shift towards telemedicine, 2020 [was] a year of tremendous change in the medical industry. 2021 will be no different, with the incoming Biden administration promising to shift the regulatory landscape. Insurers are still playing catch-up with these surprising developments. For practitioners, there are real and unsettling questions as to what […]
VIEWPOINT: Can Schools Finish the Year Normally?
COVID-19 cases are surging across the U.S., a harsh reality that students, parents, teachers, and staff feared would happen when many schools opened for fall sessions. As a result, schools throughout the nation have closed and shifted to remote learning in recent weeks. What will it take to return kids to the classroom and keep schools open?
VIEWPOINT: How Technology Can Steer You Through the Fast Lane of the Post-COVID World
Technology’s impact on the work environment was profound well before the pandemic — streamlining processes, increasing productivity, and making remote work seamless. Now, given the rapid changes in an uncertain economy affected by the virus, knowing how to utilize and navigate technology in the post-COVID world will be even more crucial for entrepreneurs, college graduates, other
VIEWPOINT: How to Make Sure COVID Doesn’t Kill Entrepreneurship
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has left many existing small businesses struggling, and the continued economic uncertainty threatens to kill the ambitions of entrepreneurs who planned to launch new businesses but now must put their dreams on hold. This crisis will end up being much worse for small businesses than the 2008-11 sub-prime mortgage
VIEWPOINT: Evaluating the Viability of AI in the Workplace
It’s becoming increasingly important for organizational leaders to consider the potential impact of artificial intelligence on company culture. Recent research estimates that one in five employees will have an artificial-intelligence system as their coworker by 2022. As workplace applications of artificial intelligence (AI) become the norm, organizational leaders will face a bevy of new challenges,
CEO FOCUS: A Year of Resilience Ends with Hope for a Better Year Ahead
Without question, 2020 brought dramatic disruptions to how we live, work, and connect with one another. Too many of our family members and neighbors have been impacted by this [COVID-19] illness, and businesses that create our community’s unique vibrancy have been forced to close or lay off workers. Still, our community has shown incredible resilience in the
VIEWPOINT: 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Make Your Business Culture a Winner
New Year’s resolutions are not only for individuals, but also for businesses. Company goals that leaders set for the year ahead are usually measured in data tied to categories like revenue production and expense reduction. After a difficult 2020 due to COVID-19, many enterprises’ bottom-line numbers will take on extra importance in 2021. And business culture
Sugar Blossom Cake Shop: “The Sweet Smell of Success”
If there were ever two young entrepreneurs that would make the sun shine from pure desire, I think I may have met them. The lyric from the song “Higher Love” epitomizes Kaleigh Ligoci and Lauren Scarpelli. On Thursday, Dec. 3, the Greater Liverpool Chamber of Commerce cut the ribbon and officially welcomed Ligoci, Scarpelli, and their Sugar
VIEWPOINT: COVID-19 Business-Succession Planning
In just [10] months, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed nearly everything — how we work, play, teach, shop, and travel. And its full impact is still not known, as the virus continues to claim lives and livelihoods. Amid so much tumult and uncertainty, it’s essential for business owners to review and update their business-succession plans.
VIEWPOINT: Managed Accounts in 401(k) Plans & the Choice they Offer Plan Advisers
In a recent PlanAdviser magazine article, it was reported that a participant in Nestlé’s 401(k) Savings Plan had filed a proposed class-action lawsuit. It alleged a breach of fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Frankly, by itself, an article like this wouldn’t have caught my attention. Participant lawsuits alleging fiduciary wrongdoing are so
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