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Look beyond patriotism: Veterans' technical skills (and the tax breaks that come with hiring them) make vets great small business hires.

Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley both have incredible talent, but theyre two very different ponds for fishing.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. Here's how to leverage their expertise to keep your company growing. Your company can have the most sophisticated equipment, the sleekest facilities, the best location and in-demand products, but none of it works without the human touch.

The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results.

How would you like to build one of the most famous brands in the world, take it global and open up 16,000 stores, only to watch as your company loses its mojo in the face of the economic collapse? That was the situation Howard Schultz found himself in in 2007. Concerned about Starbucks' trajectory over the 2000s, Schultz, who had stepped back from day-to-day operations and became chairman of the board, re-entered the CEO suite when he sensed that the company was headed in the wrong direction.