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 […]
I recently wrote about discovering the mission and vision of a business. Some people refer to the mission as to the “Why?” of your business. This is a great question to ask, but we shouldn’t just settle at asking it about the business. We should also help reveal to our employees and members of our […]
Dwight Eisenhower is often regarded as one of the most respected generals and presidents in history. But when he was 10 years old, he seemed to have a temper problem. Or at least he had a temper the night before Halloween, when his mother told him he was not allowed to go trick-or-treating. He was […]
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