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StartFast Code boot camp graduates first class
SYRACUSE — I’m flashing back 58 years ago. Reveille sounds at Fort Bragg long before the sun makes it over the horizon, and our drill sergeant enters the barracks to encourage us with a colorful, two-line ditty, ending in “… grab your socks.” The army calls it basic training; the recruits call it boot camp. […]
New state law to aid the expansion of homebrewing
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently signed into law legislation to help expand “homebrew” beer, wine, and cider-making in New York. The bill (S.1227B/A1100B) allows for the creation and operation of custom beer, wine, and cider-production centers that will rent space and equipment to people looking to produce beer, wine, or cider for home
SBA administrator pushes shopping, dining on Small Business Saturday this weekend
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is encouraging all Americans to “shop small” at local businesses and “dine small” at local restaurants and bars as part
Shineman Foundation announces grants, including for business plan contest
OSWEGO, N.Y. — Fourteen not-for-profit organizations received grant awards totaling $313,500 from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation in the last of three 2016 grant rounds
Cathy’s Cookie Kitchen to open Armory Square store
SYRACUSE — Cathy’s Cookie Kitchen — a three-year-old, local, homemade baked-cookie business — will soon open its first-ever store in Syracuse’s Armory Square. Cathy Pemberton, founder and sole owner of Cathy’s Cookie Kitchen, tells CNYBJ she has leased an 826-square-foot space at 266 W. Jefferson St. — in the former location of the Blown Away
Onondaga Small Business Development Center guides CNY entrepreneurs
ONONDAGA — The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Onondaga Community College (OCC) serviced nearly 1,000 entrepreneur clients in its most-recent fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. “We helped them create or save 400 jobs in our six-county region,” says Joan Powers, director of the SBDC at OCC. The SBDC is located inside Mulroy Hall
Cuomo announces new on-the-job agricultural training program for veterans
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Veterans Day announced the launch of an on-the-job training program for military veterans interested in careers in the agricultural industry. This training opportunity expands the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs’ (DVA) On-the-Job Training initiative to allow veterans to use their military benefits while obtaining “useful job
CrossFit Exagora formally opens near Oriskany
ORISKANY — A new specialty fitness gym, called CrossFit Exagora, has formally opened near Oriskany. CrossFit Exagora held a ribbon-cutting event with the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Nov. 18 at the firm’s site at 5994 Judd Road in the town of Whitestown, according to a chamber announcement. The business also hosted a
How Businesses Can Make the Most of their Stakeholder World
Businesses often consider it a top goal to provide value to their shareholders, but these days it may be just as important to concentrate on producing value for “stakeholders.” Companies have a plethora of stakeholders, such as customers, employees, suppliers, and local communities, among others; the sum total of which represents a business’s stakeholder world.
Organizational Change Made Easy: Give Them a Better Option
One of the most pervasive “truths” about organizational change is what change is hard. It’s “common knowledge” that people resist change. We all “understand” that change is difficult, change is slow, and change initiatives often fail. We have ample evidence to believe this so. There are estimates that upward of 70 percent of all large-scale
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