As 2019 approaches, I have been thinking about some of my goals for my business. We recruit and staff employees in manufacturing, distribution, and cleaning. (We also recruit and staff professional positions, skilled craftsmen, and skilled laborers, but I will leave that part of the conversation for another day.) One of my main goals is […]
You is smart, you is kind, you is important.” That is a great line from the 2011 movie “The Help,” in which a black servant teaches the daughter of an entitled white woman that she is valuable. It’s good that she teaches the daughter that lesson, because her mother doesn’t seem to take much time […]
I didn’t have much time to reflect on the past couple years when my business first won the 2018 Small Business Award last month. A few days after the award, my wife mentioned to me that I still seemed very stressed and busy at work. In fact, I was too busy to think much about […]
I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s biography about Steve Jobs, aptly called … “Steve Jobs.” Jobs is not exactly the type of person I want to emulate in many ways. He wasn’t a great family man, and he was often impatient and downright rude with his employees and colleagues. However, he had several qualities that […]
In the James Bond movie “Skyfall,” the discussion turns quite philosophical when in a court scene “M” asks a profound question: “So before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves: ‘How safe do you feel?’” The scene is immediately afterward met by a typical James Bond shootout. The backdrop of the movie involves a subplot in […]
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