Opinion

COVID is not going away

Let’s face it. Despite a wide range of efforts, COVID-19 and all of its current and future variants aren’t going to go away for a long, long time, if ever….

Life’s journey on the golf course

Each year, I spend time on various golf courses with family, friends and clients. Some wonder why you would use four hours of your day to play a game that…

Electric vehicles: An easy sell

We’ve heard ‘em all. “It won’t work for my daily commute.” Or “There’s nowhere to charge it.” When shopping for a new car, customers’ initial reasons for steering away from…

Flexibility regarding NIL

The NCAA notoriously does not lack for rules. For example, one rule defines “business day” while another dictates when coaches may and may not answer their phones. When I served…

Understanding how you’re wired

While no personality assessment can perfectly analyze all the behaviors that make you uniquely you, that’s still no reason to shy away from these insightful tools. In fact, I would…

The shortest recession

The recent announcement by a National Bureau of Economic Research panel that last year’s recession lasted a mere two months is another reminder postwar recessions tend to have short durations….

Don’t expect lights on a third bridge to Memphis

Remember when automobile headlight switches had three positions — off, parking lights only and headlights fully on? So what’s the big deal, you might ask? That three position headlight switch…

It takes an ecosystem

A key differentiator that sets the Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit apart from other peer conferences is our focus on emerging trends in the tech space and startups and the ecosystem…

‘The Great Resignation’ offers a growth opportunity

The Great Resignation, coined by Texas A&M professor Anthony Klotz, is a socio-economic event that has been on just about everyone’s lips. Nearly every industry, post-pandemic, is predicted to experience…

Why small businesses don’t always have the best people

It gets tiresome hearing small-business owners complain about how difficult it is to get good employees, incredibly tiresome hearing them talk about how bad their current employees are. They need…

What the NIL era for collegiate athletics could mean for Northwest Arkansas

If you expected this piece to begin with a sports pun, you were correct. The name, image and likeness (NIL) era for collegiate athletics officially teed off this month to…

Naming it: An essential to strategic execution

In a recent coaching session with a CEO, our conversation included a discussion on a number of organizational moves the company had recently made. These moves reflected both the business…

Building a chorus for Northeast Arkansas

As a resident of Northeast Arkansas for most of my life, I’ve watched through the years the opportunities that have come to our corner of the state that I love…

Parents must get children vaccinated now for full protection by school’s start

Arkansas students’ scores on the 2021 ACT Aspire exams were down this year in all grades and subjects, a troubling but not surprising sign of the learning loss that resulted…

A personal connection

If you were a marketer in March 2020, you likely took your marketing strategy for the year and threw it in the trash. And if you didn’t, you should have….

Ozone action days: an ‘undeniable’ economic campaign

In April, leaders from around the globe gathered for a virtual climate summit. During the highly anticipated event, figures from both sides of the aisle painted a bleak future without…

The importance of a dermatology skin check

Did you know that more people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the U.S. than all other cancers combined? Ninety-nine percent of all skin cancers are curable if…

Four hurdles in fighting the ‘black dog’ of depression

Depression. It has multiple ways of being created. A pandemic, debilitating illness, a child with a drug problem, battles at home, deeply entrenched memories of abuse or neglect, the death…

Post-pandemic, benefits of virtual gatherings are here to stay

A conversation about the Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit is a conversation about community: whether it’s the more than 60 committee volunteers whose vision shapes the event each year, our sponsors…

Immortalizing two Arkansas icons

First, the Arkansas General Assembly had the tough task of choosing the two people who would represent Arkansas in Statuary Hall in our nation’s capital, and then we had a…