Monday, January 13, 2020
Kara Hoogensen joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Principal 2020 Well-Being Index for small businesses, which shows that over two-thirds are very optimistic about their businesses.
Kara Hoogensen joins Jim Blasingame to report that Millennial employers are motivated differently than their Baby Boomer peers, in that they see benefits as more of an essential business expense.
Marc Lieberstein joins Jim Blasingame to report on the multi-year history of assault – beginning with the Obama administration – on the U.S. franchise industry’s relationship between franchisor and franchisee employees.
Marc Lieberstein joins Jim Blasingame to report on how union organization and state and federal governments wanting to collect more taxes, have led to a parasitic regulatory and court assault on the franchise industry over employment structures.
Marc Lieberstein joins Jim Blasingame to report that based on the Trump administration’s behavior and recent court rulings, it seems that the attacks on the franchise industry’s employment structure may be abating.
Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that most of us aren’t that good at achieving the goals we set, how to differentiate reactive and proactive goals, and how to achieve the ones we set.
Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to talk about establishing goals that you write down, that are measurable, and how to hold yourself accountable going forward.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Q4 2019 Manufacturers Survey, which shows small and mid-size manufacturers are more optimistic about the future than are large manufacturers.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report on the impact the USMCA and China Phase One trade deals just signed will have on manufacturing, including report that the trade negotiation period didn’t have too bad of an effect.
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to propose that we will not have a recession in 2020, because there are no economic fundamentals indicating that, plus the economy should benefit from completing the two trade deals.
