Rewards of local giving create success for business and community.

“You’re the door man! I love my door,” the new owners of a Habitat for Humanity home tell Tom Reed when they meet him. Those words of appreciation make the founder and president of Reed Doors & Windows beam.

In a challenging industry, local owners have the recipe for success.

Mediterraneo Market & Café

Success, Well Seasoned

There’s a recipe for keeping a restaurant thriving, says Magdy Kotb, owner of Mediterraneo Market and Café in Nassau Bay. “With 40 years of business experience and 13 years in the restaurant business, we’ve learned what really makes a difference.”

Organizational expert Peter Walsh brings clutter out of the closet.

Each New Year brings hope and the possibility of new successes, but can also be a reminder of last year’s incomplete to-do lists and leftover piles of clutter. Did you know that the chaos on your desk could actually be preventing you from achieving your potential? It’s true.

Learn a few lessons from local leaders’ experiences.

Ralph Waldo Emerson defines “success” poetically:

“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Mimi and Casey Montgomery’s formula of family and finance proves successful for homebuyers.

“Home is where the heart is.” While that old saying rings true, you may not love the complicated process that is often required to finance your new home.

UH students get a lesson in  “Zen and the art of leadership”.

Last month, the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston introduced students to some pretty radical business ideas in a lecture titled “Zen and the Art of Leadership,” delivered by Venerable Master Miao Tsan, a Zen Buddhist monk.

Ten Tips for Creating a Healthier, Happier Workspace.

Though I may complain about my husband's 70-hour workweek, I’m far from alone in my discontent. Americans work an average of 46 hours per week, with 38 percent of the population working more than 50 hours per week.

We don’t love it, but it’s inevitable—so use change to your advantage

I hate change. Really. I do. We all do. It's just human nature to stay with what we know, even if it is not in our best interest.

Late nights and multi-tasking are not keys to working smart!

Are you starting to feel like an Olympic runner with no finish line in sight? Do you brag that you can function on only a few hours of sleep? Are you a master multi-tasker? If this is you, whoa. You are on the road to burnout and it’s not pretty.

Turning Adolescents into Fiscally Smart Adults.

As children blossom into young men and women, most insist on planning and running their own lives. Parents worry about all the basic essentials for their kids’ independent living, like housing, eating properly, staying warm, being careful at night and more.

There’s more to business success than cash flow

When starting any enterprise or business, whether it is full-time or part-time, we all know the value of having plenty of capital (money). But I bet we both know, or at least have heard of, people who started with no capital who went on to make fortunes.

HBRC hosts successful seminar, offers no-cost consulting.

The University of Houston Hurricane Business Recovery Center (HBRC) presented CAN YOUR BUSINESS WEATHER THE STORM? to a near capacity crowd on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at the San Luis Resort and Conference Center on Galveston Island.

Why business invests time, money and energy for good causes.

Texans are an especially giving lot. A study by Dallas-based “Atlas of Giving” proves it.

Use skills and ambition to start your own business this summer.

Teens and college students are hearing that seasonal employment opportunities are hard to find. While the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in February reported that the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.3 percent in January 2012, the teenage unemployment rate was reported at 23.8 percent.

April is Community Banking Month, but Texas Citizens Bank celebrates community every day.

A community bank should offer the best of both worlds: personalized service along with a full range of products and technology. Since 2006, Texas Citizens Bank has brought solid, service-oriented, independent and locally owned banking to individuals, families and businesses.

Kerwyn N. Escayg and associates find joy in client success.

You might not think of joy as a part of a successful wealth management strategy, but for Kerwyn N. Escayg, CFP^® and his clients, it is. Escayg is a Private Wealth Advisor and Certified Financial Planner^™ practitioner with Escayg & Associates, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Cash flow is the life force of every small business. Here’s one source to consider.

People start companies every day for all kinds of reasons, but today more than ever, starting a business is beginning to look appealing to a lot of people.

Solo act or corporate warrior? Entrepreneur or employee?

Should you stay or should you go? How to know!

The New Year presents the perfect opportunity for new beginnings, a fresh new outlook or even dramatic pursuit of transformation with regard to our career.

Is the office a place to work and pray?

“Spirituality in the Workplace is about individuals and organizations seeing work as a spiritual path, as an opportunity to grow and to contribute to society in a meaningful way.

Achieve business goals with the right relationships.

A Strategic Alliance is a relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations.