TAB In The News
GULFSHORE BUSINESS
Feeling lonely at the top? Take heart; The Alternative Board
is there for executives, providing a confidential haven to
air challenges and get advice from others on issues from staffing
to finances. Another plus: the opportunity to learn cutting-edge
business strategies from top speakers and executives worldwide.
Though each board is unique, they all require one crucial
element — commitment. Members must regularly give their
time, money and business acumen. The results, executives say,
are personal and professional growth, improved decision-making,
increased accountability and networking.
ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
Alternative Board is a sounding board for small businesses
Bruce Shapiro is the third generation to run his family business,
Shapiro Sales Co., an industrial scrap metal recycling company
started in St. Louis 70 years ago by his grandfather. But Shapiro
is the first in the family to look outside for advice on running
the company.
BLOOMBERG SMALL BUSINESS
Listen to Allen Fishman, CEO and founder of The Alternative
Board, explain the idea of TAB. Fishman discusses the dynamics
of a TAB Board as well as benefits and challenges faced when
beginning the TAB concept.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Proponents of peer advisers say company boards can be compromised...The
best thing an entrepreneur can have is someone who can help
him or her step up higher than day-to-day responsibilities.
A board of directors might serve that purpose, but in small
companies, the boards often are made up of insiders. Or, in
the case of a TAB Board Member, the owner is the board.
ST. LOUIS BUSINESS JOURNAL
Whatever difficulties they bring to the table, those who attend
the monthly meetings of The Alternative Board come hoping to
find solutions and advice from fellow small business owners.
Their problems can range from having trouble managing cash
flow to dealing with insurance and health-care costs to reducing
over-head and overall expenses.
Small Business Consultant and Syndicated Columnist
If you are worried about the direction your firm should take
and how to better market your products or have questions of
any kind that directly affect the long-term health of your
firm, you need help, and chances are the typical board of director
members, such as your attorney, banker, supplier and so forth,
are not the people to help you. They all have too big an interest
in their part of your pie.
You need another approach. The Alternative Board (TAB) helps
small corporations and sole-proprietorships set up boards of
directors that actually work for the entrepreneurs.
ENTREPRENEUR
To deal effectively with such a range of issues, groups should
be careful to select members from a variety of fields. “One
of the Major benefits is a cross-fertilization of ideas from
people who are not in your field,” says Allen Fishman,
CEO of The Alternative Board TAB, a Denver-based peer group. “Some
of the best ideas will come from people who aren’t locked
into your historical ways of thinking.”
BUSINESS WEEK
BY INVITATION ONLY. Allan Adams, founder of Adams Translation
services in Austin, belongs to a networking group as well as
The Alternative Board...Adams often taps the local group for
help with personal issues but turns to the more high-powered
CEOs at The Alternative Board for advice on corporate matters.
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