by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
For close to one-and-a-half hours this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis sat patiently, and deeply engaged, as she listened to the challenges and opportunities that small business faces in a country dominated by the influence of large multinational...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
Yesterday, Matt Madia, a policy analyst at OMB Watch, Robert Weissman, president at Public Citizen, Peter Iwanowicz of the American Lung Association, and I participated in a media briefing to call attention to Representative Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) plans to hold...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 2, 2011
Fighting Democracy and Destroying America’s Economic Future This has been quite a year for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a year of blunders as well as successes. On balance, it appears the chamber is winning more often than it’s losing. My concern is who’s benefiting...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 31, 2011
I landed last week in a somewhat unusual place for someone like me: the annual meeting of the American Economics Association (AEA) in Denver. While en route to the event, I realized it was the first time that I can remember that I was attending a conference as a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 28, 2011
This is the time of year when all the pundits, journalists, forecasters and owners of crystal globes issues their predictions. Mine are not very rosy! We’ll spend most of our time playing defense. The Republican majority in the House together with Obama and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 26, 2011
I believe in an America committed to the democratic ideal of government of the people, by the people and for the people. That’s why, on Friday, January 21, 2011, I was proud to be among the business leaders who announced the launch of Business for Democracy, a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Innovation Inspired by Nature. Janine Benyus one of sustainability’s most brilliant minds developed the idea of Biomimicry. Biomimicry is the rather simple idea that if we can understand the way in which nature works to acquire and store energy, build bridges and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Creating a Caring Economics Riane Eisler Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 Great books are few and far between, but go out and get this one. A review from The Baltimore Chronicle gives a better overview than I can! Do you ever open your eyes in the morning and think,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
The Inner Path of Leadership Joseph Jaworski and Betty S. Flowers Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998 “One of the most important roles we can play individually or collectively is to create an opening, or to ‘listen’ to the implicate order unfolding, and then to create...
