40 Next: Michael Seibel
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Black Enterprise is taking a look both forward and backward at the world of black business. Follow us as we reveal our "40 Next: Emerging Business Leaders Who Are Shaping Our Future."
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Get a GPS for Your Life
Time and again, I chat with people, young, old, and in between, who don’t have the most basic plan to guide their lives much less a back-up scenario in case they meet major obstacles. As unbelievable as it may sound, most don’t map out the essentials—finances, careers, education, or health, to name a few areas. You must figure out the big picture, set goals, don’t let any impediment wreck your future, and develop a vision for your life.
40 Next: Latoya Wall
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Black Enterprise is taking a look both forward and backward at the world of black business. Follow us as we reveal our "40 Next: Emerging Business Leaders Who Are Shaping Our Future."
The Dos and Don’ts of Delegating
When Juliet Okafor started her sales and marketing business in January 2009, she handled all the responsibilities of entrepreneurship herself, from customer service to marketing to chasing down invoice payments. By May of that same year, she had reached a breaking point. When a business partner asked Okafor to write a press release for a fashion show she was planning, “I broke down and just couldn’t do any more,†she says. “I finally realized I needed help.â€
Mixing the Right Ingredients for Growth
Operations are humming at the 56,000-square-foot Norwalk, Ohio, bakery. The facility’s 160 employees, nearly all wearing bouffant caps and what appear to be white lab coats, toil alongside large mixing, baking, and packaging machinery. Elaborate conveyers prepare, mix, bake, and pack plain, seeded, and double-cut hamburger buns at a rate of roughly 4,000 dozen per hour.
