How small businesses are navigating rising uncertainty in 2025

Aging entrepreneurs face new policy hurdles. Here’s how to help

Americans love small businesses. We dedicate a week each year to applauding them, and spend Small Business Saturday shopping locally. Yet hiding in plain sight is an enormous challenge facing small-business owners as they age: retiring with dignity and foresight. The current economic climate is making this even more difficult. As a professor who studies aging and business, I’ve long viewed small-business owners’ retirement challenges as a loomin…

How small businesses are navigating rising uncertainty in 2025

Gateway Commercial Finance explores how small businesses are responding to economic uncertainty in 2025 through trends in optimism, hiring, revenue, and access to credit.

Navigating White Water | ICSB | International Council For Small Business

Navigating Permanent White Water: What It Means for MSMEs In today’s business landscape, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are not simply facing turbulence; they are operating in what organizational theorist Peter Vaill described as Permanent White Water: a constant, unpredictable stream of change that has become the new normal. This isn’t about isolated disruptions. It’s about a relentless cycle of challenges, from supply chain break…