Dale Buss

Rochester Hills

Journalist for Forbes, Chief Executive et al. Former WSJer. Business, politics, culture, media and good old-fashioned newspaper ink. Sconny!

Articles

Understanding The Rise In CEO Exits

2 weeks ago | boardmember.com | Dale Buss

Across industries, a quiet but alarming trend has been swelling-a record-breaking rise in CEO replacements, resignations and retirements. Approximately 1,991 chief executive officers left their positions in 2024, representing a 16 percent bump in departures from 2023. Forced departures at troubled companies-including high-profile ousters at Intel, Starbucks, Boeing, Nike, CVS, Hertz, Stellantis and Peloton Interactive-undergird the trend.
How Talent And Technology Are Redrawing America’s Economic Map

3 weeks ago | strategicchro360.com | Dale Buss

Corvus Robotics is a microcosm of where the U.S. economy is headed. It makes and sells drones to warehouses, where they buzz around and keep track of stuff from auto parts to lawn mowers, cases of industrial chemicals to cases of Coca-Cola. The startup is doing its bit for American “reshoring” by assembling its complex drones at a small plant in Silicon Valley rather than China.
Elon Musk’s Latest Disruption: Your Jet’s WiFi

4 weeks ago | chiefexecutive.net | Dale Buss

From space exploration to presidential politics, the Elon Musk effect has been felt in a huge swath of industries and arenas around the globe. Now it’s private aviation’s turn to experience the Musk Effect, as his SpaceX company rolls out its Starlink WiFi service to business aircraft and commercial airliners.
How Talent And Technology Are Redrawing America’s Economic Map

1 month ago | chiefexecutive.net | Dale Buss

Corvus Robotics is a microcosm of where the U.S. economy is headed. It makes and sells drones to warehouses, where they buzz around and keep track of stuff from auto parts to lawn mowers, cases of industrial chemicals to cases of Coca-Cola. The startup is doing its bit for American “reshoring” by assembling its complex drones at a small plant in Silicon Valley rather than China.
Detroit United - DBusiness Magazine

1 month ago | dbusiness.com | Dale Buss

Like other revitalization pioneers in Detroit before him, Sean Mann is standing amid a toothless urban landscape, surrounded by decades-old detritus, permanent graffiti, and pockmarked vistas — but he’s inspired by his own vision of what’s possible, and propelled by the hope that others see it, too.
After Hybrid: Bringing Them Back

1 month ago | strategicchro360.com | Dale Buss

Versapay gathered 300 of its remotely working employees from around the country on Bentonville, Arkansas, last summer for a four-day, company-paid gathering to promote connection and camaraderie. Attendees got hotel gift bags; retailers visited them with chocolate tastings; they were regaled by a variety of musical acts.
Inside The Surge Of CEO Exits

1 month ago | chiefexecutive.net | Dale Buss

Bart Shuldman still doesn’t know exactly why he had to resign as CEO of TransAct Technologies in the spring of 2023. He had led the gaming and food service technology company back from the brink of ruin through Covid and beyond, had notched and fulfilled a major order from McDonald’s and, with his team, had made TransAct No. 1 in the casino market. Sure, the Hamden, Connecticut-based company had been struggling since the pandemic.
After Hybrid: Bringing Employees Back

2 months ago | chiefexecutive.net | Dale Buss

Versapay gathered 300 of its remotely working employees from around the country on Bentonville, Arkansas, last summer for a four-day, company-paid gathering to promote connection and camaraderie. Attendees got hotel gift bags; retailers visited them with chocolate tastings; they were regaled by a variety of musical acts.
CEO Quitting Times?

2 months ago | strategicchro360.com | Dale Buss

Bart Shuldman still doesn’t know exactly why he had to resign as CEO of TransAct Technologies in the spring of 2023. He had led the gaming and food service technology company back from the brink of ruin through Covid and beyond, had notched and fulfilled a major order from McDonald’s and, with his team, had made TransAct No. 1 in the casino market. Sure, the Hamden, Connecticut-based company had been struggling since the pandemic.
Startups Innovators Hot Sauces Bring the Heat

Jan 23, 2025 | perishablenews.com | Michele Hurtado |Dale Buss

Entrepreneurs target Gen Z and younger millennials with an innovative array of hot sauce products. Steve Seabury is typical of a generation of entrepreneurs who have applied their creativity, talents, and energy to hot sauces. “I always enjoyed making hot sauces and eating peppers and doing stupid things with spicy food,” says the music impresario who put together 600 bottles of his specialty sauce for the Metal Alliance Tour in 2011 and started High River Sauces.