“Don’t call my business small,” was the common sentiment given voice at the Chamber of Commerce Small Business Awards program this week. As 37 businesses were recognized and five of those were chosen as “owner of the year” in different categories, those in the Crowne Plaza dining room identified with how all these businesses loom large in their owners’ sleepless nights. Survival is success, employees’ satisfaction is part of the profit and recognition from peers is rare but cool. Small business is the backbone of the economy, and it takes a lot of strong backbones to make it so. –Fletcher Farrar, editor and CEO
This article appears in Jun 21-27, 2018.
