An Island of Dreams

Most of the coverage of Mehmet Bayraktar’s Island Gardens development has come in snippets. A lot of it has dealt with the delays in bringing the $1 billion mega-yacht marina

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Strike up the Brand

Marketing gurus join forces to target women with new branding and entertainment company By Beverly Barna When longtime marketing gurus Mark Alfieri and Pat Patregnani met about a year ago, they

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Why South Florida?

An expert panel talks about what’s going right and what challenges the region faces By Kevin Gale It still doesn’t hurt to treat a job candidate to dinner at Joe’s

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Agent of Change

Rachel Sapoznik crusades to change how we think about health care and insurance Rachel A. Sapoznik is the founder, CEO and president of Sapoznik Insurance, a premier employee benefit and

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SFBW Agenda

Green fleet pays off for City Furniture City Furniture says that the cost savings from trucks that can run on compressed natural gas (CNG) are a key part of its

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Goldilocks Minutes

Taking a measured approach to corporate minutes can minimize potential legal hazards and maximize regulatory compliance By Kevin Gale Consider minutes as the instant replay of the corporate boardroom. Let’s

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The ‘marketplace’ model will demolish your strategy: Is your board ready?

By Betsy Atkins As a corporate board member, you’ve gotten the memo on how technology change is shaking up how you do business. But don’t get comfortable; the compounding of

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Should you REALLY join that nonprofit board?

By Gerry Czarnecki If you asked to join a nonprofit board, I suggest that you pause first. Since virtually every C-suite executive, high net worth individual or person of influence

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How creating affordable, cool urban places can be profitable

By Jim Fried Two Miami real estate thought leaders recently discussed urban placemaking on my show. Placemaking is a growing trend that looks at an area’s attributes and potential and

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The ETF Phenomena

By Julie Neitzel Landmark innovations over the last 20 years include mobile phones, the Internet and social media. The financial services industry similarly continues to innovate with new investment tools

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Mindful managers cultivate motivated, happy and productive employees

By Linda Janasz Mindful management may be the most effective tool to develop and keep satisfied and productive employees. A recent article from Harvard Business Review stated that practicing mindfulness

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SFBW Agenda

All-Star Nonprofit Awards winners announced More than 400 corporate executives, community leaders and members of the nonprofit sector attended Switchboard of Miami’s fourth-annual Katz Barron Squitero Faust All-Star Nonprofit Awards

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