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Opinion

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  • Adam Hughes
  • April 17, 2006
Lasday: You can't manage, if you can't measure

High performance marketing all-stars need discipline to measure results and progress.

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    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 17, 2006
Walsh: Housing schemes will make the shortage worse

It's like the March of the Penguins.Throughout Florida, in county after county, city after city, elected representatives are marching one behind the other into the frozen idea that new laws mandating and coercing developers to build "affordable" houses will relieve the state's housing shortage in any meaningful way.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 10, 2006
Lasday: Treat customers as a financial asset

The lifetime value of your customer base will create your greatest future worth.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 10, 2006
Vollmer: The Goldilocks Economy

When you tabulate all of the economic forecasts and key indicators, the U.S. economy this year won't be too hot or too cold. It should be just right.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 20, 2006
Walsh: Walgreen Way: Dan Jorndts' Roadmap for CEOs

The retired chairman and CEO wowed his audience with straight talk on what it takes to be a successful CEO.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 20, 2006
Lasday: Turn Your Corporate Brand Inside Out

Initiate your corporate personality internally before you launch it to the entire world.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 10, 2006
Thomson: Tourism Tax Can Cut Two Ways

The tourism tax can help the industry, but also can be dangerous to some tourism businesses.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 3, 2006
Thomson: Is more money best for schools?

Research, combined with good old-fashioned common sense, suggests that the best students come from solid families, not from big spending.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 3, 2006
Rauch: Overvalued

Here's my contention: The stock and bond markets are 30% overvalued based on their historic indicators and current ratios, creating investment risks in both markets.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 28, 2006
Rod Thomson: Growth: The Policies Should Match the Realities

Growth along the Gulf Coast is an inevitable and necessary reality. Dealing with growth often wanders far from reality.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 20, 2006
Matt Walsh: Court ruling puts school system ahead of children

The High Court's dissenting minority showed how the majority's anti-voucher arguments were flawed.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 20, 2006
Lou Lasday: Strategic Segmentation: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Markets need your focus to propel highest profit edge!

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 13, 2006
Tax funding won't solve gridlock; it's time for tolls

Lee and Collier counties want to privatize expansion of I-75. Waiting forfederal funds is futile.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 6, 2006
Matt Walsh: 6 resolutions to improve the economy

Cut building and zoning regulations, increase insurance and school competition and let the world know we have jobs.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 6, 2006
Thomas Sowell: Cheap Pay, Lousy Politicians

I don't make a million dollars a year but I think every member of Congress should be paid at least that much. It's not because those turkeys in Washington deserve it. It's because we deserve a lot better people than we have in Congress.

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