What will the future hold for small businesses? What are the key survival and growth strategies for 2009 and beyond? Doug Tatum and Jim Blasingame talk about some of the critical issues that will help a small business survive and thrive in a global economy going forward in the coming economic recovery and expansion.

What is at stake for the U.S. economy in the next 18 months? Doug Tatum has just returned from China and he talks with Jim Blasingame about what he saw and heard, plus they discuss the decisions -- in the marketplace and by the government -- that will have to be made to keep the U.S. economy competitive in the global marketplace.

What do you do when your business is too small to be big, and too big to be small? Doug joins Jim to tackle this issue and explain how it happens, how to identify this condition and what to do about it.

Sitting in for Sam Norwood, Doug joins Jim to report on the state of the U.S. economy through the eyes of the Tatum partners who report their experiences in running several hundred of American businesses.