Interview With Tom Rieger on Not Letting Your Fear Keep You From Succeeding
By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant
After studying dozens of defunct companies, both large and small, Tom Rieger found that fear contributed significantly to each company’s demise. Now president and CEO of National Business Innovations in Orange County, California, he wrote Breaking the Fear Barrier: How Fear Destroys Companies From the Inside Out and What to Do About It (Gallup Press, 2010) to share his discoveries. Home Business Magazine recently spoke with Rieger about how fear impacts home businesses.


my like molasses going uphill in the winter time, small businesses are starting to feel the pressure ease, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to go back to “business as usual.” 





