Mary and Marci join Jim to discuss how businesses are giving back to their communities and why this is an important strategy for companies of all sizes, besides the fact that it’s the right thing to do.

Bill and Jim discuss how courage plays an important part in the development and management of your business.

March is national Nutrition Month and Jim is joined by Lynn to discuss the 2005 USDA dietary guidelines and the importance of eating a balanced diet, which includes not eliminating any food group.

Chris joins Jim for his first visit to talk about how to use orienteering as a team building exercise.

Steve and Jim continue their discussion of why it’s important to understand the concept of critical mass as you are making plans to grow your business.

Tom and Jim discuss the most recent dynamics in the relationship between a small business and its customers with emphasis on the experience of doing business with you, rather than what is being purchased.

Dr. Rolls joins Jim for the first time to discuss her new system of weight loss and weight maintenance, VOLUMETRICS, which involves focusing on eating foods that are high in volume, low in calories, but also high in nutrition. Dr. Rolls says that no food group should be excluded in your diet and that when you’re dieting, it’s even more important to make sure that you get proper nutrition.

Concerning the recent release of Martha Stewart from prison of being convicted of lying to the FBI about whether she took advantage of insider stock information, Len and Jim discuss how Martha will be received as she returns to the market place and what that will say about how our society feels toward ethical behavior.

Following Cherie’s travel log of her recent trip to Egypt, she and Jim discuss how small business owners should focus on the intellectual property they develop. Cherie says that we should get beyond the “Ah shucks” attitude of thinking that we don’t know anything that anybody would want and identify the things about our business and our industry and think about ways to license that knowledge as a way to leveraging ourselves.

Bill and Jim talk about some of the macroeconomic issues that the U.S. marketplace is facing, including the declining dollar and the implications for increased inflation and increased interest rates.