The Authentic Starbucks Experience

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience." ...

Trump's Tariffs Are Forcing Global Small Business Owners to Raise Prices

©iStock/M.photostock Many CEOs of small and medium-sized consumer product businesses in the U.S. say President Donald Trump’s tari...

Meet Lilli, McKinsey's Generative AI Platform

©iStock/Jacob Wackerhausen “Knowledge is the life force of McKinsey,” explains Kitti Lakner, an associate partner and Lilli produc...

U.S. Imports Slid in June on Higher Tariffs

©iStock/beingbonny According to the Commerce Department , imports from other countries fell around 4 percent from the previous mo...

The New Trade Reality – wegginar® With Specialists Kim Doyle and Jessica Wargo, Partners at Plante Moran

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Between shifting tariff policies, an evolving trade landscape, and i...

Today in Global Small Business: Global Expansion Simplified for SMEs

©iStock/Olga Ubirailo What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Global expansio...

The Tool of Every Self-Portrait Is the Mirror

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror.  You see yourself in it.  Turn...

Who's Reading What at Deloitte Insights?

©iStock/Kravchenko Tetiana From economic uncertainty to workforce tensions to generative AI, this quarter’s Top 10 most-read busin...

A History Lesson in Melody, Harmony and a Global Music Revolution (The Beatles)

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Say Hello to wegg® DOBO™

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Meet the Global Style Hero to Fashion-Savvy Social Media Creators

©iStock/Windzepher At 71, Doug Bihlmaier has become a global style hero to fashion-savvy social media creators. Matt Hranek, the f...

Today in Global Small Business: Best Grill Topper On the Planet and Made in USA – Oscarware

©iStock/karandaev What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: It's summer, up...

I Live For Summer

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "I live for summer." – Sandra Boynton from The Global Small Business B...

Business Intelligence Firm BigBear.ai Accelerates Its Global Expansion Strategy

©iStock, Andrey Suslov Bigbear.ai ( https://bigbear.ai/ ), a higher form of business intelligence, is accelerating its global expa...

A Model for Expanding Your Business into Foreign Markets (HBR)

©iStock/Galeanu Mihai In May, 2024, it was thought that globalization would flatten out cultural differences among countries and r...

The World Asks: Why Is Someone Not Writing a Biography About Ghislaine Maxwell?

©iStock/Michail_Petrov-96 Please.  The easiest way to find out more details about Jeffrey Epstein  (the list, who was involved wit...

How Small Pizzerias Succeed With Uniqueness in an Age of Global Food Chain Restaurants

©iStock/Wirestock Pizza is deceptively simple. Made from just a few humble ingredients — baked dough, tangy sauce, melted cheese a...

Today in Global Small Business: Is Your Ideal World Walmart?

©iStock/Wirestock What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: An Opinion Piece o...

Love Is the Flower You've Got to Let Grow

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Love is the flower you've got to let grow." – John Lennon from The...

What's Your Next Brilliant Move?

©iStock/SARINYAPINNGAM McKinsey & Company wants to help and they are not a sponsor to the Global Small Business Blog . from...

On a Global Scale, Here's What Can Happen If You Play Around with the Fed

©iStock/Rasi Bhadramani Four USA bank CEOs weigh in on what the consequences would be should the Federal Reserve not be independen...

The Average Tariff on Imported Goods is Now the Highest It's Been Since the Great Depression

©iStock/CreativaImages The average tariff on imported goods is now the highest it's been since the Great Depression . And Trum...

Stagflationary Shock

©iStock/thitivong President Trump has had little reason to scale back on his global trade was ambitions.  If the new tariffs go in...

Today in Global Small Business: Tariffs Bad

©iStock/Nalidsa Sukprasert What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Trade econ...

People Take Pictures of the Summer

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had mis...

Viewpoint Diversity by Harvard

©iStock/Marcio Silva Harvard leaders have discussed creating a program that people briefed on the talks described as a center for ...

Great Analysis of How Tariffs Are Paid by Americans

©iStock/Pavlo Stavnichuk Ed Gresser's analysis of how tariffs impact consumers (Americans) is excellent.  If I were updating m...

The OKAPA Water Bottle: Elevating An Everyday Ritual Through Meticulous Design and Uncompromising Engineering

©iStock/quantic69 At its core, the OKAPA bottle elevates an everyday ritual through meticulous design and uncompromising engineer...

Tariffs: Oh Keep Up Will You?

©iStock/Yakobchuk President Donald Trump has delayed imposing higher tariffs on US imports, while sending letters to 14 countries ...

Today in Global Small Business: The Predictability of Unpredictability

©iStock/Yutthana Gaetgeaw What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Trump is no...

I Simply Know They're Just One Thing

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing....

Honoring Independence Day 7/4/25 and Hoping For a Better, Freer America Soon

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When You Find Yourself In Times of Trouble, Listen to the Beatles (Video music)

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The Winners and Losers in Trump's Big, Beautiful Tax Bill

©iStock/Denis Novikov The Big, Beautiful Tax Bill (BBTB) is indeed big: 1,116 pages in the House version and 887 pages in the Sena...

The Dollar's Worst Start to the Year in Decades

©iStock/ImagePixel The United States’ currency has weakened more than 10 percent over the past six months when compared with a bas...

Today in Global Small Business: wegg® Accepts All Leftover Gift Donations to Mr. and Mrs. Bezos

What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® (wegg®) accep...

Never Dull Your Sparkle

©2025 Laurel Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Don't let anyone dull your sparkle" –  Marilyn Monroe from The Global...

Global Vogue Looks to Fill Some Elegant and Expensive Shoes: Head of Editorial Content at American Vogue

©iStock/ArtMarie The U.S. magazine Vogue will search for a new editor-in-chief to give Anna Wintour more time to focus on her work...

Winning the AI Race

©iStock/Moor Studio Facebook parent Meta invested $14.3 billion in AI startup Scale AI and hired its CEO and co-founder Alexandr W...

Morgan Uhl, Founder and CEO of Knobez Discusses An Educator's Journey to Inventing a Product (wegginar® 7/9/25)

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Morgan Uhl, Founder and CEO of Knobez discusses, " From Lesson ...

Grease the Wheel: Trump Plans to Make it Legal for Businesses to Bribe Foreign Officials

©iStock/undefined undefined Bloomberg reports that Donald Trump will soon sign an executive order to pause the enforcement of the ...

Today in Global Small Business: Fred Smith, Founder of FedEx, Is Dead At 80

RIP the Mighty Fred Smith, Founder of FedEx

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. Always, always admired [Laurel Delaney here} and have been inspired by Fred Smith ,...

Artists of the Wall at Loyola Park 2025: All Together Now

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. A few photos I [Laurel Delaney] took from the 32nd Annual Artists of ...