Trading Lemons for Lemonade

By Mary Arnold


What better way to start the workweek than to read the heart-warming story of a credit union that has put a 35-year-old widow with five kids into a house? Seeing the good press $320 million CP Federal Credit Union got in the local Jackson, Mich., paper for its good deed is icing on the cake.

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Face to Facebook Class Reunion

Posted by Erin Templer

My sister-in-law was expecting to attend her 10-year high school reunion this summer. That is, until the other week when she found out that the event was canceled due to lack of interest.

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Build Your Own Disruption: How Would You Change the Model?

Posted by Christopher Stevenson


Sometimes business models are forced to change, often because of disruptive technologies. Today I heard that The Wylie Agency, a leading international literary agency, will be acting as its own publisher and releasing a number of its authors' older books--like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Invisible Man, and Lolita--exclusively as e-books on the Amazon Kindle.

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