Check it at the door
Here are a few tips to help you stop dragging baggage between home and the office.
Inspiration and Ideas
Not your average mom-and-pop stores
Keeping it in the family pays off for three big companies By Leslie T. Snadowsky Could your mom-and-pop business become the next Fortune 500 success story? According to a February report by SCORE, a nonprofit division of the U.S. Small Business Administration dedicated to helping small businesses, family enterprises generate 64 percent of America’s gross…
Think big, start small
By Hannah Massen Smart strategies for getting outside your comfort zone Think back to last year’s list of New Year’s resolutions: maybe you swore you’d finally take up kayaking or commit to a Wednesday night Zumba class, but you never got around to it. Or maybe you were serious about starting another business but never…
Building on a need
Zack Kelly helps custom homebuilders take care of business – so builders can build By Ellen Linnemann A longtime serial entrepreneur and successful insurance agent who currently owns an Allstate insurance agency in Charleston, Zack Kelly’s path to becoming a true visionary started while simply “sitting in” on a meeting at the request of a…
Looking up
Roel and Jennifer Harsta bring their vision for year-round fresh local produce and vertical farming to the Lowcountry By Ellen Linnemann The pandemic’s disruption on the supply chain was experienced in many ways, both worldwide and locally — including the pandemic’s impact on being able to secure fresh produce. So when local availability and local…
Create a work/life balance plan
By David Nelems If you’ve seen the Apple TV show “Severance,” you’ve seen the extreme dystopian interpretation of a work/life balance. In this show the main characters agree to a surgical “severance” program in which their non-work memories are separated from their work memories. While they’re at home, they have no idea what they do…
TOMS stepped out as a leader in corporate giving
How your business can follow in its footsteps By Ima Walker Chances are if you don’t own a pair of TOMS shoes, you have heard of them. TOMS is the company that pioneered the ‘buy-one, give-one’ model of giving by donating one pair of shoes to a child in need for one pair sold. That…
Fueling an empire
How Greg Parker scaled his business from one location off of I-95 to one of America’s most successful convenience store chains By Hannah Massen For tourists, Parker’s is their introduction to the Lowcountry, as it’s where they fill up their gas tanks as soon as they arrive and right before they leave. For locals, it’s…
Communicating like a leader requires emotional intelligence
By Nancy R. Burger The former presidential speechwriter James C. Humes said, “The art of communication is the language of leadership.” Leaders set the vision for an organization and inspire followers to execute that vision by providing a clear and powerful message. Delivering that message effectively, however, requires more than slide decks and performance reports….
An idea worth sharing
How TEDxHiltonHead has given our island community a global voice By Hannah Massen True to his organization’s tagline, Rex Gale had an “idea worth sharing” while driving home from Savannah one night in 2014. He had just given a talk at TEDxSavannah (previously known as TEDxCreativeCoast) on how to make better decisions in life by…