This year, our company was awarded the APA’s Psychologically Healthiest Workplace Award in the Small For-Profit Category. This is arguably the most significant achievement in our organization’s twenty-five year existence. I will have the honor of representing Tasty Catering as a company and … [Read more...]
Five Lessons from the Inc. Small Giants Summit 2013
I recently traveled to San Diego where I encountered many old friends, made several new ones and took home a wealth of knowledge. Among the new things I acquired, I thought I’d share with you five lessons I learned from this year’s Summit. 1. How to vision for your life. When you “vision,” you … [Read more...]
Small Giants International Summit
The Small Giants Community (SGC) is a unique group of entrepreneurs from various companies who share the values as advocated in Bo Burlingham’s book, Small Giants. Last year’s Small Giants International Summit was held in Konstanz, Germany, and SGC member and event host Sue Barry provided an … [Read more...]
Exciting Events in 2012
The start of a new year gives us all a chance to regroup, recap and look to the future – a chance to clean our slates. Depending on what interests you most, you more than likely set up your 2012 perception by asking yourself one simple question, “What am I looking forward to this year?” Sports … [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...]
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...]
An Exceptional Panel from Inc. Magazine & UnitedHealthcare
From L-R: Kyra Cavanaugh of LifeMeetsWork; Robert Pasin of Radio Flyer; Tom Walter (me) of Tasty Catering; Mike Evans of GrubHub. Last evening, October 12 2011, I had the honor to be a panelist at an event hosted by Inc. Magazine and UnitedHealthcare at the elegant James Hotel in downtown … [Read more...]