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Op/ed: Three steps to prioritizing your company’s charitable giving this season

By   /  Friday, December 14th, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Three steps to prioritizing your company’s charitable giving this season

By Cynder Sinclair on December 14, 2012 This time of year most businesses find their mailboxes and inboxes overflowing with donation pleas. It seems like more requests come your way every year. There are so many good causes, especially in the Tri-Counties. How can you decide which organizations to give to? As a business person Read More →

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Op/ed: Why Jon Stewart’s ‘softer cushion for failure’ will create jobs

By   /  Friday, November 16th, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Why Jon Stewart’s ‘softer cushion for failure’ will create jobs

Would-be entrepreneurs with families or pre-existing conditions are being blocked from self-employment.

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Letter: Goleta’s Measure G would not stifle growth

By   /  Friday, November 2nd, 2012  /  Letters to the Editor, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Letter: Goleta’s Measure G would not stifle growth

Dear Editor: This is in response to the Pacific Coast Business Times’ editorial on Oct. 26 that opposed Goleta’s Measure G2012. We begin by thanking the newspaper, whom we contacted to clear up a misconception. As a correction has since indicated, Measure G2012 is extremely limited in that it does not affect 121 agricultural parcels Read More →

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Op/ed: Regulations alone won’t instill ethics in corporate America

By   /  Friday, October 19th, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Regulations alone won’t instill ethics in corporate America

The bottom line is that ethical behavior cannot be legislated.

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Letter: SB County needs to restore private-sector job balance

By   /  Friday, October 12th, 2012  /  Letters to the Editor, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Letter: SB County needs to restore private-sector job balance

Seventy-one percent of the top 25 employers provide government jobs.

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Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  1 Comment

By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →

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Op/ed: Leadership by fiat seldom works

By   /  Friday, September 14th, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Op/ed: Leadership by fiat seldom works

Effective executives don’t put obstacles in front of people; they help remove them

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