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Surviving Disruption: The Meeting Industry’s Path Forward

Surviving Disruption: The Meeting Industry’s Path Forward

Meeting planners have always needed to be adaptable. With so many moving parts in organizing events, the potential for things going awry is high. This flexibility makes the role one of the most stressful out there. Yet, despite all the planning and preparation, few...

Inventor: Madam C.J. Walker and Her Legacy of Innovation

Inventor: Madam C.J. Walker and Her Legacy of Innovation

Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove, transformed the beauty industry with her innovative hair care products for Black women. Facing hair loss herself, she created solutions that not only improved her own condition but also addressed a widespread need. Walker’s entrepreneurial spirit and unique approach to marketing helped her build a thriving business that empowered other Black women to achieve economic independence. Her story is a powerful example of how necessity can drive innovation, turning personal challenges into opportunities for lasting change.

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Will Robots Disrupt Your Job?

For years we’ve been reading about robots taking over our jobs and controlling human beings. In truth, we can learn to work alongside them. They can take over some of the more repetitious tasks we have to do. So, yes, robots may disrupt your job. Robots disrupt...

Create an Innovative Culture

Create an Innovative Culture Baseball player Yogi Berra once said “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else”. You can’t expect your company and team to be innovative if you don’t know which direction you’re going in. It’s up to the person in...

US Patent and Trademark Office

My experience with the US Patent and Trademark Office was overall a good one. I did have to resubmit my product twice for my patent and several times for my trade dress. But that happens to many inventors. It takes an average of 22.5 months for a patent to issue....

Disruption in Supply Chains

When I first started out as a manufacturer, I had one supplier in the U.S. But I quickly realized that manufacturing in small quantities in the U.S. was not going to work. That is, if I wanted to make any money at all. So I started manufacturing in large volume with a...