MWIB  (Minorities And Women In Business) is an award-winning, national publication dedicated to the successful development and growth of minority, women, and veteran business enterprises.    A strong advocate for the minority, women, and veteran business community, the magazine serves as a bridge between corporate entities and small business enterprises. 

SETTING THE PACE - GOING FAR

Like many a professional woman, especially a woman of color in corporate America, Michelle Thornhill knows just about all there is to know about glass ceilings. She’s shattered worlds more than her share of them. Her company’s trademark is a horse-drawn stagecoach in full gallop, and similarly, she has charted her course and is on a roll.

STATE OF DIVERSITY IN AMERICA

Today the world is one big marketplace. In it, companies of all shapes and sizes are vying for evermore diverse customers from diverse cultures in an evermore diverse marketplace. According to Redia Anderson and Lenora Billings-Harris, authors of the new book Trailblazers: How Top Business Leaders Are Accelerating Results Through Inclusion and Diversity, the companies that will prosper in this global marketplace understand that in order to stay open for business, they must mine their employees’ own diverse perspectives to differentiate themselves from their competition, define who they really are, and increase their relevancy in a global economy. And to be truly effective, this engagement must start at the top.
 

FOCUS ON FIT IN YOUR GROWTH PLANS

In 1967, many heard the same advice given Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: “Plastics”. The 2011 equivalent of that might be “China”. Plastics was good career advice in 1967 and China is undoubtedly good market advice in 2011. Is such advice all that is needed for your firm’s 2011 growth plan?

SHOULD YOU INCREASE YOUR PRICES TENFOLD?

Greg put down the phone. It was a strange call. Mega Package had called to ask him to bid on a training program for the first line supervisors. Greg’s training company had done this work before but not a multi-year project training as many as 2,500 front line supervisors in 40 plants across the USA. There were 7 other international training companies bidding.

MINDING YOUR MANNERS ONLINE

The Internet is a big, limitless place where the rules of everyday life don’t always apply. You can be whomever you want to be and say whatever you want to say...right? Well actually, no, you can’t—or at least, you shouldn’t. Especially if your online presence is connected to your professional image. The fact of the matter is, just as there is proper etiquette in the “real” world, there’s a right way and a wrong way to behave in the online world, too.

MWIB  (Minorities And Women In Business) is an award-winning, national publication dedicated to the successful development and growth of minority, women, and veteran business enterprises.    A strong advocate for the minority, women, and veteran business community, the magazine serves as a bridge between corporate entities and small business enterprises. 

SETTING THE PACE - GOING FAR

Like many a professional woman, especially a woman of color in corporate America, Michelle Thornhill knows just about all there is to know about glass ceilings. She’s shattered worlds more than her share of them. Her company’s trademark is a horse-drawn stagecoach in full gallop, and similarly, she has charted her course and is on a roll.

STATE OF DIVERSITY IN AMERICA

Today the world is one big marketplace. In it, companies of all shapes and sizes are vying for evermore diverse customers from diverse cultures in an evermore diverse marketplace. According to Redia Anderson and Lenora Billings-Harris, authors of the new book Trailblazers: How Top Business Leaders Are Accelerating Results Through Inclusion and Diversity, the companies that will prosper in this global marketplace understand that in order to stay open for business, they must mine their employees’ own diverse perspectives to differentiate themselves from their competition, define who they really are, and increase their relevancy in a global economy. And to be truly effective, this engagement must start at the top.
 

FOCUS ON FIT IN YOUR GROWTH PLANS

In 1967, many heard the same advice given Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: “Plastics”. The 2011 equivalent of that might be “China”. Plastics was good career advice in 1967 and China is undoubtedly good market advice in 2011. Is such advice all that is needed for your firm’s 2011 growth plan?

SHOULD YOU INCREASE YOUR PRICES TENFOLD?

Greg put down the phone. It was a strange call. Mega Package had called to ask him to bid on a training program for the first line supervisors. Greg’s training company had done this work before but not a multi-year project training as many as 2,500 front line supervisors in 40 plants across the USA. There were 7 other international training companies bidding.

MINDING YOUR MANNERS ONLINE

The Internet is a big, limitless place where the rules of everyday life don’t always apply. You can be whomever you want to be and say whatever you want to say...right? Well actually, no, you can’t—or at least, you shouldn’t. Especially if your online presence is connected to your professional image. The fact of the matter is, just as there is proper etiquette in the “real” world, there’s a right way and a wrong way to behave in the online world, too.