Sig Mosley, President, Imlay Investments   The Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia today announced I. Sigmund “Sig” Mosley, Jr., president of Imlay Investments, as the 2007 inductee. The award ceremony is set to take place at the Technology Association of Georgia’s annual Georgia Technology Summit on Feb. 27. In 1990, Sig Mosley joined Imlay […]

Lease Renewals Take Work Too By: David J. Rubenstein, Principal, The Miller Richmond Company Finalizing terms on a new lease for office space requires strategy, a good deal of corporate energy and of course, professional advisement. However, many tenants fail to realize that the lease renewal process demands a substantial amount of planning and advisement […]

Best Foot Forward By: Tom Christner,Director of Business Development, Resourcis, Inc. Attracting top-talent requires you, the hiring manager to put your best foot forward. Everyone knows that a job seeker should put their best foot forward, but why does this advice get forgotten when the candidate becomes the hiring manager? Placing ones best foot forward […]

Taking the LEED – is it worth it? Corporate Need Drives Buildings to LEED By: Rob Metcalf and Diane Vrkic, Jones Lang LaSalle In the past couple of years, companies have latched onto the idea of becoming more sustainable, and one of the most important strategies for them to get there is to occupy buildings […]

Why Your Sales Force Needs Fewer Leads (Or, what they can learn from an ancient Chinese warrior…) By: Dan McDade Dan McDade, Founder & President, PointClear Sun Tzu, the Chinese general and military strategist, said, “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to […]

· Over 70 percent of Atlanta CEO Council member organizations will host a holiday party this year, and the majority will spend over $2,000 on the occasion. · 30 percent of member organizations will offer holiday bonuses to employees. · More than 40 percent will spend $25 or more per employee on holiday gifts, with […]

Federal Circuit Rejects Signal Claims As Non-Statutory Subject Matter In an important case addressing the scope of patentable subject matter, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a claim reciting “a signal with embedded supplemental data” because a transient signal is not sufficiently tangible to fall within one of the four statutory […]

Sure, Pay-for-Performance…But What Performance? Addressing the Top Concern of Compensation Committees By: Ronald Bottano and Russell Miller Executive pay plans are keeping corporate directors awake at night. The top concern of compensation committees is “aligning pay more closely with performance,” according to Korn/Ferry International’s 33rd Annual Board of Directors Study. Yet the ease with which […]

Research and development (R&D) tax credits: Warning…Quality matters! By: Mark Andrus, national partner in charge of research and development, Grant Thornton LLP While Congress has been fair to the high-tech industry by extending and expanding the research and development (R&D) tax credit, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is watching closely to ensure that the credit […]