Oliver: Encourage feedback to avoid whistleblowing
By Carl Oliver Whistleblowing is trouble. Every business is vulnerable. Even when the business is innocent, handling whistleblowing is distracting and expensive. Taco Bell in 2011 is an example. News reports said an ex-employee revealed its beef tacos were not 100 percent beef. Other things were mixed in with the meat. Taco Bell responded, “It’s Read More →
Baffa: Everyone benefits from marine sanctuaries
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Sinclair: Homelessness impacts Tri-Counties
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Grau and Wilson: Santa Paula headed toward bankruptcy
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Head Start students gain path out of poverty
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Panesis: Tri-county region needs its own Sand Hill Road
By Mike Panesis To entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road is mecca. Wikipedia lists 44 venture capital firms located on this relatively short stretch of road in Palo Alto. The first to set up shop on Sand Hill Road, in 1972, was Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, today one of the largest and most venerable Read More →
Schlomer-Fischer: Brand innovation requires creativity
By Erika Schlomer-Fischer Chaos or creative brand opportunity? Technological shifts are being felt at many levels in business and our daily lives today. Human adaptation to these shifts has always created anxiety due to social, economic and power-based changes. The field of Austrian economics aptly refers to this period of change as “creative destruction.” As Read More →
