Your time spent in college is also the beginning of your emotional intelligence development. You find out about yourself in college. You enter with a small idea of what you want to be and leave with a frightening idea of what you don’t want to be. Over the years I have become addicted to the … [Read more...]
Fargo, Part Three
Part of the joy of traveling across campuses for me is the networking opportunities. In addition to meeting the professors of the classes with whom I engage, I’m usually lucky enough to meet a handful—sometimes more—of people whose meeting I will remember for a while. North Dakota was no … [Read more...]
Sweet Beginnings Tea
On Tuesday, February 7th, I had the pleasure of attending a fundraiser for a program near and dear to my heart. Through this organization I have meet some terrific people with wonderful hearts and great leadership skills. The fundraiser benefited Sweet Beginnings, a non-profit. It took place at … [Read more...]
Fargo, Part Two
As I recapped my experience with Dr. Peterson’s Legacy class specifically, I can’t help but recap my experience with other staff and students. NDSU, after all, has more than twenty-five impressive people, am I right? By the time I had gotten to Dr. Karen Froelich’s graduate class on my second … [Read more...]
Fargo, Part One
While some people might think crooked politicians, mobsters, criminals and corruption when they think of Chicago, I had a similar stereotype of the city that I visited for five days in January—full of cold, full of crime and completely movie-based. I’m talking about Fargo. During the week of … [Read more...]
Remember to ask, “What business are we in?”
Kay Plantes is an MIT educated economist. She has been a friend and business confident for several years. Her book, Beyond Price, provides great insight into how commoditization can destroy a business. I thought this blog, and the five points she poses, should be read by you. Some of these … [Read more...]
Daunting Hurdles for Young Entrepreneurs
The number of students transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship is growing at a record pace. This is very understandable because today’s students are more connected than those in previous generations. Social media and mobile phone apps are able to help bring products to markets faster than … [Read more...]
Why is the Value of Employee Engagement Not Easily Understood By Organizations?
During my emerging stage as an entrepreneur, one of my most tedious daily disruptors was “managing” people. This daily grind included defining individual tasks, explaining expectations, observing and correcting staff during the execution of those tasks and a follow-up review at the end of the day. … [Read more...]
The Value of a Village
In 1996 Simon and Schuster published former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. The title of the book is from a Nigerian proverb. The premise of the book is a focus on the impact that groups, individuals and communities have on raising a … [Read more...]
The Evolution of my Interpretation of Entrepreneurial Success
My entrepreneurial trek began in late 1970 when I quit my job and began work on the development of a fast food restaurant with two partners/friends. We opened for business in February of 1971. At that time, I thought success would be freedom from a boss, cash and fame. Quitting my job to … [Read more...]
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