What is the Vision?
Does our organization or our business have a good vision? I listened to a speaker this week who used an illustration for all...
My Most Challenging Transaction – the One that Taught Me the Most!
In the late 1970s, I was a farm specialist and received a call from a former client. Pat then worked for a small-town feed company that...
Social Media—To Use or Ignore?
It is hard to believe that some of us can visualize a world without television. I remember that our farm family drove to a neighbor’s...
Climb, Conserve, Confess!
Recently I read Rumsfeld’s Rules by Donald Rumsfeld. One of the primary rules he learned in pilot training is that if you are in an...
Lack of Entrepreneurs Revisited
I wrote an article for the Observer in 2010 entitled “Where Have All of the Young Entrepreneurs Gone?” It identified my observation that...
Should One Invest Now or Wait for Better Times?
I talk to many business people regularly. What is their perspective? What are they doing in today’s times? Currently, in my central...