by Curtis Battles | Feb 5, 2015 | Development, New Canaan Advisors, Other Issues, Value Enhancement
{Time to read: 4 minutes} Many entrepreneurs and corporate executives are often faced with tough decisions to make, but they don’t always have a team of trusted advisors at their disposal. Vistage International, based out of San Diego, is an organization that brings...
by Curtis Battles | Jan 19, 2015 | Development, New Canaan Advisors, Other Issues, Value Enhancement
Today, many Congregations, Synagogues and Mosques are seeing a decline in their membership and active participation. This is mainly due to changing demographics where the core membership is aging and attendance is down. A challenge for any denomination is determining...
by Curtis Battles | Nov 19, 2014 | Development, New Canaan Advisors, Other Issues
Leaders must have the confidence to continue growing and learning if they want their team to follow suit. This was just one of the lessons I took away from a leadership development seminar I attended recently called L2 (Learn, Lead). This seminar was sponsored by...
by Curtis Battles | Oct 20, 2014 | Development, Other Issues
Recently, I came across a New York Times article which revealed that kids graduate from college and often remark “I don’t know what I want to do…for my first job…or career”. Even though parents spend massive amounts of time, energy and money...
by Curtis Battles | Jun 13, 2014 | New Canaan Advisors, Other Issues
In the past, people traded paper on the New York Stock Exchange. Transactions were handwritten on a pad and reconciled at the end of the day. Those transactions are now done with computers. You can call your broker and say, “I want to sell 100 shares of...
by Curtis Battles | May 14, 2014 | Development, Other Issues
Carving time out of your busy schedule to give back to your community can be challenging but not impossible. I’ve made it a priority in my personal and business lives to give back to those who may not have had the same opportunities I have had. I’m very involved with...
