Do Not Drive Boring Cars

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Life is too short to drive boring cars." – Most commonly attributed to ...

I [Laurel Delaney] Loved the New Cracker Barrel Logo!

©iStock/marcnorman I [Laurel Delaney] loved the new, fresh and updated Cracker Barrel logo. Yet ...    Cracker Barrel is reverting...

These Incidents Should Not Happen: Shooter Opens Fire in Catholic Church in Minneapolis (8/27/25)

©iStock/Jennifer Yakey-Ault A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday (8/27/25) through the windows of a Catholic church in Mi...

Hello World: Learn What Janet L. Yellen Says About Removing Lisa Cook as a Fed Governor in USA

©iStock/lemono Janet L. Yellen, who was Mr. Jerome Powell’s immediate predecessor as Fed chair and later served as Treasury secret...

wegginar® with Duct Tape Marketing CEO Sara Nay, 9/3/25

©2025 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Sara Nay, CEO of Duct Tape Marketing, will be presenting a wegginar®...

Today in Global Small Business: Global Superpower Maria Sharapova Is Competing in a New Arena and It's Not Tennis

©iStock/J2R What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Global superpower Maria S...

Smile When You See a Butterfly

©2025 Laurel Delaney.  All rights reserved. “If you smile when you see a butterfly, you have happiness in your soul.” – Diana Coop...

Are We Using Artificial Intelligence to Do the Brainwork For Us?

©iStock/hapabapa Back in the day, if we wanted to get just about anything done, we had to rely on our entire mental faculty to do ...

Don't You Love Thomas Friedman's Opinion Pieces?

©iStock/mizoula In Thomas Friedman's latest Opinion piece for The New York Times (8/19/25), he says:   "I am really tryin...

Tough Obstacles To Ending the War in Ukraine

©iStock/TexBr The simple fact that recent meetings between Trump and Zelenskyy, and the larger gathering of European leaders, was ...

AI Is Used to Bring the Operating Cost of Fisheries Down

©iStock/Sasithorn Phuapankasemsuk Because inflation continues to rise, the cost of all fisheries has become more expensive . The h...

Today in Global Small Business: America's Busiest Gateway For Imports Sets a New Record

©iStock/MattGush What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: America’s busiest ga...

The Beautiful Part of the Cloud

©2025 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it's unlimited capacity, in...

AI Openness: A Primer for Policymakers

©iStock/ko_orn The policy paper, " AI Openness:  A Primer for Policymaker ," explores the concept of openness in artific...

How To Cope With All the Chaos Going On In the World

©iStock/Halfpoint Uncertainty is a natural part of life, but it’s easy to feel completely overwhelmed when a lot of unknowns are c...

Global Entrepreneurship Reality Check

©iStock/Silver Place Every February, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) publishes the iconic Global Report, offering stakeholde...

Sudden Departures of People in Critical Jobs Leave Companies With Holes

©iStock/Gregory Rodriguez In recent months, immigrants working in manufacturing, food production and other industries have lost th...

Today in Global Small Business: Can a 99-Cent Iced Tea Survive Trump’s Tariffs?

©iStock/duckycards What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: “I hate even the t...

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...