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Rebuilding the Texas Business Community Through Networking

Scott Talley August 12, 2020

Experienced business owners have known for years that if you aren’t able to or willing to adapt, it will make growing your business difficult. COVID-19 has only expedited this process for many. Those businesses that were continuously adapting before COVID-19 are seeing their efforts pay off now. Since March, we have seen businesses quickly pivoting […]Read More

Business in Texas Decision Making Features

Restarting Texas: Oil and Gas CEOs & CIOs Look to

Julie Luecht August 7, 2020

In Texas and around the globe, CEOs are realizing the importance of agility in sustaining and growing their business. More than half acknowledge agility as the new currency of business, and also acknowledge that growth relies on the ability to challenge business norms. Despite this realization, just under half of CIOs feel that their organizations […]Read More

Features Leadership

What We Look for from Leaders During Crisis

Rusty Shelton August 5, 2020

I always wondered if my generation would ever have a mega event that challenged us in a way that past ones have other generations. Thankfully, we have missed out on so many of the major events that our relatives battled in their lifetimes, including the Spanish flu, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, World War […]Read More

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Nominate an Exceptional Leader.

Texas CEO Magazine August 4, 2020

Do you know a leader who met the challenges of this year in an exemplary way? We’d like to honor them in our Q4 issue. A worldwide pandemic. A rapid economic downturn. A reckoning with racial injustice. These are a few of the events of 2020 that have changed the way Texas CEOs lead their […]Read More

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Putting the GDP Numbers in Context: What You Need to

Jeremy Horpedahl, PhD July 30, 2020

We all know that we are going through one of the worst economic downturns in US history. But how bad exactly is the downturn? The recently released Gross Domestic Product data for the second quarter of 2020 paint a very grim picture, with the headline number suggesting that the economy contracted by -32.9%. GDP is […]Read More

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Weathering Economic Uncertainty in a Post-Pandemic Business Landscape

Diane Batayeh July 30, 2020

Leveraging lessons learned from the 2008 recession to prime your business for success Statistically speaking, the majority of businesses around today didn’t exist during the 2008 recession. According to JPMorgan & Chase Co., “51 percent of small businesses are 10 years old or less.” And you’re likely already familiar with the daunting survival rates of […]Read More

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Leading in the New Next

Randy Pennington July 22, 2020

Are you and your business hunkered down waiting for the “new normal?” Forget about it. There is no more new normal. There is only a New Next. We will emerge from this COVID-19 fueled economic crisis to find that some things look familiar, but that nothing is the same. A sense of “normal” won’t return […]Read More

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Coming Out of the Crisis with a Stronger, Strategically Aligned

James O'Gara July 21, 2020

2020 will go down in history. Not only because of the global pandemic, but due to the lasting impact it will have on the business community at large. Leaders are being asked—no, forced —to retool their businesses to be successful in what many believe to be our new normal. COVID-19 has changed our economic environment, […]Read More

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Why We Provided Free COVID-19 Testing to Our Employees—and the

Taseer Badar July 14, 2020

As businesses reopen across Texas, it is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that employees feel safe and confident about returning to the office. I currently serve as CEO of ZT Corporate, a private equity firm with a large and diverse portfolio, and I continue to work with my team on innovative ways to […]Read More

Entrepreneurship Features Interviews

Bill Perkins Wants to “Die with Zero”

Texas CEO Magazine July 10, 2020

Wise people sock money away throughout their lives, accumulating a big old nest egg for retirement—right? Bill Perkins wants to update that paradigm, as he explains in Die with Zero, hitting bookstores this month. The Houston-based hedge fund manager, poker player, and wild bet maker proposes a new philosophy based not in the hope of […]Read More