Let Your Christmas Spirit Be Bright

©2024 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Let your heart be light and your Christmas spirit bright." – Anonymous ...

How Today's Investments in Children Build and Skill Tomorrow's Leaders

©iStock/Tiago_Fernandez This is the story of how targeted, community-driven investments in nutrition, education, and social prote...

Cheers to a Happy Thanksgiving!

©iStock/gorodenkoff "We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Br...

The Return of Rigid Gender Roles

©iStock/oatawa The political landscape is causing many to feel fearful. Simultaneously, traditional gender roles have come back wi...

How Great Leaders Inspire Action (Simon Sinek | TED)

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Today in Global Small Business: What's the Worst That Could Happen?

©iStock/Zmaster What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Making effective decis...

Never Regret Anything That Made You Smile

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, lau...

Open Your Mind To: Tranquilizer (Oneohtrix Point Never - D.I.S.)

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The Hamano Bag: Fame Can Come At Any Moment

©iStock/Sean Pavone The new"'it" bag. “It,” of course, is the black tote carried by Sanae Takaichi, the new prime mi...

The Global Small Business Blog Averages 1.3 Million Views Over the Past 3 Months!

©iStock/ClusterX There is a reason The Global Small Business Blog is ranked #1 in the world for entrepreneurs and small businesse...

Happy Global Entrepreneurship Week from wegg®

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Happy Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) which is an annual, interna...

Today in Global Small Business: Deglobalization & AI with John Yunker on 12/3 at 11 AM CT (wegginar)

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved . What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global...

Oh It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas!

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. Strolling along in the Loyola University Chicago area of Rogers Park Lake Shor...

Prosperity Through Global Entrepreneurship

©iStock/JHVEPhoto Building on the momentum of MIT's 2025 conference, the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneu...

Moving Factories From China to Elsewhere

©iStock/Bet_Noire A trade truce between the United States and China has calmed nerves, but it won’t stop the broader movement of c...

International Expansion Plan For Paris Pop-Up

©iStock/Elena Zolotova The American brand founded by sisters-in-law Veronica Swanson Beard and Veronica Miele Beard is moving into...

Alaska Airlines Reshapes Its Identity Into a Globally Recognized Carrier

©iStock/OntheRunPhoto Alaska Airlines (AS) is reshaping its identity from a West Coast staple into a globally recognized carrier. ...

Today in Global Small Business: A Guide to Expanding Your Business Globally

©iStock/Tippapatt What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: A guide to expandin...

It's That Time: Marshall Field's Walnut Room Christmas Tree 2025

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. About the experience visiting the Walnut Room at Marshall Field's (now Macy...

Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2025

©iStock/Khanchit Khirisutchalual Corporate sustainability means integrating  environmental and social considerations into a compan...

President Trump Has Imposed the Highest Tariffs Since the Great Depression

©iStock/searagen The tariffs at the heart of this week's Supreme Court case are raising tens of billions of dollars for the fe...

Dexter GBS CEO Fre Rammeloo Will Discuss Procurement and Global Supply Chain (wegginar® 11/5/25)

©Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. JOIN us today, November 5th at 11 AM CT for a wegginar® with Fre Rammelo...

Bryan Sansivero Photographs America's Abandoned Homes

©iStock/nathanaparise For a decade, the New York-based photographer Bryan Sansivero has sought out forgotten, dilapidated homes a...

Today in Global Small Business: Heated Electoral Contest in New York City Brought To You By S.N.L.

©iStock/PaulMcKinnon What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: A satirical deba...

You Know It's [the Day After] Halloween

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "You know it's [the day after] Halloween.  I guess everyone's entitled...

A Model for Expanding Your Business Into Foreign Markets

©iStock/peshkov Harvard Business Review, 5/17/24:  It used to be thought that globalization would flatten out cultural differences...

Is Global Trade Rewiring Without the United States?

©iStock/kvkirillov The fragmentation of the global trade system is leading to the rise of new trade coalitions and corridors, said...

Success On Her Terms: "Finding Your True North" With Shelly Sun Berkowitz, CEO of Founder 2 Founder

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global unveils its newest and most exciting...

Bracing for the World's Strongest Storm on the Planet in 2025: Hurricane Melissa

©iStock/Trifonov_Evgeniy Three people have died already in Jamaica as it braces for the world's strongest storm this year - a...

Today in Global Small Business: The Global Small Business Forum Turns 10 — and It’s More Powerful Than Ever!

What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Photo collage from the super successful 10th...

Eli's Cheesecake Company Celebrates the 10th Annual Small Business Forum in Chicago (10/24/25)

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. The best:   Eli's Cheesecake Company in celebration of the 10th Annual Global ...

Taylor Swift: Life of the Showgirl Explained (2025)

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Together, Let's Go, Go, Go Global! Final Call for Tickets!

Join us in person tomorrow, Friday, October 24th in Chicago at the 10th Annual Global Small Business Forum , "Playing to Win ...

Let's Make Sure Watchdogs Do Their Jobs

©iStock/cynoclub Timing is everything. Parisa Salehi, Export-Import Bank's Inspector General, was the kind of internal watchdo...

Repeat: 50 Ways to Go Global

©iStock/Bjoern Wylezich LOVE 💟 this old post from 2007:   50 Ways to Go Global !  You can see who is still around and who isn...

Today in Global Small Business: India's Biggest Holiday of the Year, Diwali Day

©iStock/StarLineArts What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Happy Diwali Day...

Showcasing the Most Beautiful City in the World: Chicago

  Diverse • Innovative • World Class   "In Chicago , we value unity over division.  Our city's beau...