Harvard Business School’s weekly newsletter “Working Knowledge” is full of useful stuff for business leaders. Check it out at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/index.jhtml. 

Besides their magazine, Fast Company has a splendid website. Check it out at http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/.  Their archives are easy to search when you are looking for information about specific subjects.  Two that have proven valuable are “20/20 Change Agent,“ (Issue 30, December 1999) and “Demographics: The Population Hourglass” ( Issue 103, March 2006), a must read especially if you are planning to grow and need to market your products or services.

Have you seen the Intuit Future of Small Business Report: First Installment: Demographic Trends and Small Business? Intuit and the Institute for the Future have undertaken a research project to identify, analyze, and forecast the significant trends and forces impacting small business over the next decade. They will present their findings in a series of forecast reports. Demographic Trends and Small Business, is the first of this series. Check it out at www.intuit.com/futureofsmallbusiness/