Commentary: The Little Engine That Can't (Without You)

The few who made it came from companies with annual sales as little as $20 million or so. But they were able to cough up the nearly $1,000 for travel and lodging, etc., forfeit two days out of the office, and tolerate the D.C. heat in August to attend the meetings. As one attendee told me, “I have incredible challenges as a CEO, and as hard as it is to take this time from other things, if I don’t, I won’t have a business and we won’t have an industry. I can’t lose sight of the fact that this needs to be one of my top priorities.”