Wally Bock joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the responsibility of a business owner at the company Christmas party – show up after it starts, don’t stay the entire time, and keep any remarks short.

Karen Cortell Reisman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how having a great team will make customers want to come back, including how to be happier and manage your expectations.

How can you plan for the human side of your small business? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to talk about developing a human resource plan the same way you develop a marketing plan or any other kind of strategy.

Do you use a competency model for personnel planning? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why you must have a replacement plan, how to develop one, and how to incorporate the annual review as part of this plan.

Are you guilty of taking your key people for granted? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why you must take the time to consider what would happen if any of your key people suddenly left for any reason.

How can you prepare your company to compete for good employees? Bob Kelleher joins Jim Blasingame to predict competition for employees is coming again and recommend several best practices to be a successful employer of engaged people.

How could Google's plan to give employees a 10% raise be a mistake? Bob Kelleher joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why compensation is not the best way to keep employees and does not contribute to engagement.

Can opponents actually thwart the health care law at the state level? Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff joins Jim Blasingame to report on the different ways states can neutralize the health care law, including financially, legislatively and constitutionally.

What should be done with the health care law? Paul Sarvadi joins Jim Blasingame to report why the health care law will create more problems than it will fix and should be repealed, even though that is not likely to happen.

How will we solve structural unemployment? Tatum's Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why structural unemployment is one of our most difficult challenges and what we can do to solve it.