Grab a Shovel

Years ago, a good friend of mine offered some sage advice that continues to resonate with me to this day. I must have been complaining

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Fixing and Healing

My wife and I just had a landscaping project done at our house. As I watched the crew work their magic with flagstones, pea gravel,

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Growing Up, Part II

As I mentioned in Part I of this series, transitions take place throughout our lives and throughout the life spans of a business. There are

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Growing Up, Part I

When we think of transitions in business, it’s often from one generation to another or when a business is being sold and it’s from one

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Will 2022 Be Your Year?

It was a sunny, autumn afternoon when I received news no business owner wants to receive. I was in the field making sales calls when

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B-School 101, Part I

The students sat, eagerly waiting for their professor to start the day’s class. This was a required course for their graduate program, so most were

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Photographic Memory

In 1880, a young banker invented dry plates, an early product used in the development of photographic images. Over the next four years, after leaving

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