To celebrate CorporateHistory.net’s own 15-year anniversary, we complete this list of 15 lessons learned from working with dozens of family-owned firms, small businesses, nonprofits, and Fortune 500s. (Read lessons 1-7 at https://www.corporatehistory.net/corporatehistory-nets-own-origin-story/ ). As always, our top piece of planning advice is to allow time. Any history-capturing[...]

Like the shoemaker whose children go barefoot, we’ve been too busy chronicling other companies to write our own history. Someday! Until then, we’re delighted to share this insightful profile of CorporateHistory.net by journalist Kelly Parr of Autumn Years magazine. The article inspired a bit of self-reflection. Following[...]

Second in a series. Leave it to Kurt Vonnegut to nail the truth: “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.” At CorporateHistory.net, we encourage clients to chronicle how they have faced crises. Trials by fire reveal turning[...]

No crisis in the past century compares to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet each crisis in its own era seemed insurmountable at the start. At CorporateHistory.net, we encourage clients to chronicle how they have faced external challenges—if only because every reader loves a good survival story. Trials by[...]