The Venture Edge

It's interesting how life and business works. As a writer, I am often working on a wide variety of projects -- from a biography on the woman who in 1873 planted the two navel orange trees that became a multi-billion-dollar industry in Southern California, to a book on the history of Network Solutions -- the company that during the mid-'80s set the stage for the dot-com explosion -- to a book on two-time America's Cup winner Peter Isler's sailing secrets. Lately, for some reason, the universe's mysterious synchronicities have put me squarely in the middle of the topic of women in business. 

As a slave to Fox News, I constantly hear that the government -- particularly the current administration -- is anti-business and anti-jobs. While I don't personally know if this particular administration is any more anti-business or anti-jobs than any of its predecessors, the business climate does vary from state to state within the Union. Always has, always will. This fact was backed up by a recent survey of more than 500 U.S. CEOs polled by Chief Executive magazine.