By Bob Andelman

“SiteFiles: Mid-South States 2006”By Bob AndelmanCorporate Meetings & Incentives MagazineOctober 2006 What’s New Louisiana and Mississippi, in the heart of the Mid-South region, took a serious blow from Hurricane Katrina last year. But the region is coming back. New Orleans,… Continue Reading →

“Motivating Meeting Planners: How meeting department managers keep their independent, world-traveling, Type A planners challenged, happy, and sane.”By Bob AndelmanMedical Meetings MagazineSeptember/October 2006 Are planners a tougher crew to manage than other employees? You bet. For starters, they need to… Continue Reading →

“Meeting Effectiveness 101: Twenty years ago, Intel designed a training course for new hires around Andy Grove’s theories on effective meetings. Today, the program is stronger than ever”By Bob AndelmanCorporate Meetings & IncentivesDecember 2006 Many of the Greatest concepts that… Continue Reading →

“Managing Meeting Pros, Part 2”By Bob AndelmanCorporate Meetings & IncentivesOctober 2006 How can meeting department managers keep their independent, world-traveling, Type A planners challenged and motivated? Last issue, five readers shared their secrets to maintaining everyone’s sanity in a pressure-cooker… Continue Reading →

“Managing Meeting Pros, Part 1”By Bob AndelmanCorporate Meetings & IncentivesSeptember 2006 Are Meeting Professionals a tough crew to manage? You bet. Because they are on the road so much, there can be communication and comp-time issues. They are expected to… Continue Reading →

“Meat and Greet Services:Eatertainment companies focus on group events”By Bob AndelmanMotivation Strategies Magazine(Motivation Show 2006 issue) Even a 35-year-old venue with locations worldwide can still learn new tricks when it comes to hosting group business. That’s what happened in February,… Continue Reading →

(Mr. Media may be a new name for some, but Internet oldtimers will recognize it as one of the original sources of web content and links in the mid-90s. Watch for new media interviews starting in February but while you… Continue Reading →

Engineer of Growth: StewartThrives in More Than One Role Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PMBy Bob Andelman George Stewart always thought he’d spend his life as an engineer, or managing engineers, or teaching engineering. But building a Baptist church almost from… Continue Reading →

Turning Meetings Upside Down May 1, 2007 12:00 PM By Bob Andelman If Elliott Masie were king of the forest, the woods would be blanketed with Wi-Fi, every encounter between predator and prey would be televised, and the results of… Continue Reading →

The Power of TwoThree smart, influential bay area couples granted the MADDUX BUSINESS REPORT a rare peek into their public and private lives. The chatty profiles you are about to read are not your typical fare for a business story…. Continue Reading →

Multitaskin’ MarvinEntrepreneurial whirlwind Marvin Kaplan is reinventing Dunkin’ Donuts—and more. By Bob Andelman Marvin Kaplan is just one man, even if sometimes it seems that he must be in more than one place at a time. “I like to stay… Continue Reading →

Capital Improvements By Bob Andelman Retail Traffic Magazine Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM Washington D.C. and Richmond are most famously paired as the two national capitals during the Civil War. Today, the cities have a new bond. Each has undergone… Continue Reading →

In the Maddux Business Report‘s April 2007 cover story by Mary Ellen Collins, “Whodunit in Florida? A Backdrop for Murder” about novelists Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch) and Stuart M. Kaminsky (Vengeance), Bob Andelman is included in a sidebar about prominent… Continue Reading →

Corporate Meetings & Incentives MagazineCover StoryMar 1, 2007 12:00 PM,By Bob Andelman The symphony of hundreds of hammers hammering, a half-dozen circular saws buzzing, and 800 Habitat for Humanity corporate volunteers grunting was a sweet sound in the new New… Continue Reading →

Bob Andelman asks: “Does this cardboard cutout of “American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks make me look fat?” (Thanks to photographer Jonathan Roberts.)

Bob Andelman’s latest book is FANS! Not Customers: How Commerce Bank Created a Super-Growth Business in a No-Growth Industry, written with Commerce Bank founder, chairman and CEO Vernon W. Hill II. It will be published in October 2007 by Portfolio… Continue Reading →