This week began with a bang for the oil markets. On Sunday the members of OPEC+ struck a historic deal to slash production by a whopping 9.7 million barrels in May and June in an attempt to rescue oil prices from the depths of the
Shanda Sumpter is the founder and CEO of HeartCore Business, a training company that gives entrepreneurs step-by-step systems to help them build successful businesses. It’s all about getting founders out of the daily grind — and into a life they love. “Going to college, working for a big corporation
Transitioning to a fully remote workforce opens an entire host of new challenges. Perhaps you got into a good groove in week one, but now issues are popping up left and right. Like sharing passwords for example. Without being able to turn to the person
Being a business owner isn’t easy. It requires a lot of hard work, and even then, you aren’t guaranteed to be successful. While external market factors can certainly play a big role in whether or not your startup turns into a long-term success story, your influence
As our world has been turned upside down, so have our workforces. Now more than ever, employees are looking for things that are familiar, reliable and consistent. According to Gallup, “Global citizens look to leadership to provide a path — and to provide confidence that there is
While lowering the cost to human life remains of utmost importance during the COVID-19 outbreak, the virus is also fiercely impacting businesses across the globe. In the United States 17 million people, 10% of the workforce, filed for unemployment in a three-week period, and the OECD projects world GDP
Good news for entrepreneurship, bad news for entrepreneurs who don’t want any market competition: We’re experiencing the highest level of entrepreneurial activity recorded in the last two decades, according to a data set published by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2019. There’s been an uptick in 55-
Many people have big dreams of quitting their day jobs and going to work on a venture that they love. To which I say: Why don’t they? True, for most people, quitting their jobs with little to no resources to fall back on and taking a blind step