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Stacking firewood, and learning about learning

It’s late September, and that means it’s time to order up some firewood and begin stacking it for when the cold weather hits. This weekend, I had my wood delivered, and my father happened to be in town as well. He pitched in and helped me stack up my wood into a corral I had […]

Mission and Vision = Purpose and Pride

Had an opportunity to help someone craft a Mission and Vision statement for a new product line recently. It was an interesting experience, and gave me a chance to demonstrate how focusing on the intangible, humanistic side of things is so much more than just pie-in-the-sky “fluff.”

While struggling with the concept, he was doing […]

Forecasting Misunderstood

Anyone who has ever been involved in working with the financials of a company, in any capacity, has had to deal with forecasting. Whether establishing the AOP or identifying manpower requirements, there’s a need to project (meaning “predict”) future needs, associated costs, and their impact on revenues since Revenue – Cost = Profit.

Much like […]

Setting the tone: 10 tips for leadership

We’ve all been put into situations where we need to take control of a situation early on. Otherwise, we’ll find ourselves constantly looking up at a perch of credibility and respect we’ll have to work hard to climb up to, if we can even get there at all. With that in mind, I came across […]

Taking Advice: It’s like eating Broccoli

We’ve all received Good Advice. The thing with Good Advice, though, is that it’s not necessarily New Advice. There are plenty of times when we are given a new perspective on things that gets us moving in the right direction, but most of the time, we know what we need to do – we just […]