New Hampshire Business Review - July 3 2009

The good, the bad and the ugly

This year’s budget process was sloppy at best. While there may be cause for relief in the short term, citizens should worry about the long-term ramifications as well as the process employed in its creation. The budget committees, led by…

The multi-tasking paradox

Multi-tasking - it’s the secret to working hard, while actually accomplishing very little, almost none of it well. Some companies actually make it a job requirement: “Must be capable of multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing priorities.” I…

New markets for a new economy

For the past seven years, I’ve led a small team at CEI Community Ventures, one of two for-profit venture capital subsidiaries of Maine’s Coastal Enterprises Inc. and one of only six New Markets Venture Capital companies in the country. A…