Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on external trends impacting small and midsize businesses in 2020. In Part 4, we study the economy in three main sections: the U.S. Economy, Global Outlook and Key Industries. T...
An economic slowdown has several implications for your company’s ability to sell to and engage customers. According to research conducted by Vistage which captured the opinions of 1,518 CEOs from small and midsize businesse...
When the sky turns cloudy, a weather forecast can reliably predict the timing, duration and severity of a storm. But when economic conditions worsen, there’s no resource that can forecast what lies ahead—at least with any reasonable degree of cer...
The latest survey of CEOs conducted by Vistage found that the economic confidence of small and midsize business leaders has continued to decline. In the Q3 2019 survey, the Vistage CEO Confidence Index measured 85.0, down from 88....
In August, economic confidence among small firms fell to its lowest level since November 2012, according to a survey conducted by Vistage and the Wall Street Journal. The survey was conducted August 9-16 and captured input from 67...
Many CEOs believe the amount of reasonably priced senior capital their company can obtain is limited by what hard assets they have as collateral, such as inventory, receivables, machinery and equipment. But that is no longer true....
New data from Vistage finds that the economic confidence of CEOs from small and midsize businesses has fallen to the lowest level since the presidential election. Download the full infographic Analysis of the Q1 2019 survey determ...
When asked to assess the recent performance of the national economy, just 32% of CEOs reported that the economy had recently improved, down from 70% last January. Economic optimism among small firms sank in the January 2019 surv...
New data from Vistage research finds that the economic confidence of CEOs from small and midsize businesses has plunged in recent months. In the Q4 2018 survey, the Vistage CEO Confidence Index measured 95.4, compared to 103.0 las...
If you want to understand what kept small and midsize CEOs up at night during 2018, look back at these 8 top articles on the Vistage Research Center. They highlight some of the unforeseen plot shifts over the year, unexpected...
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