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Category Archives: CEO notes
How are you doing on your 2013 goals? It’s confession time. I didn’t do very well on my 2012 goals. In December I reviewed the five goals I had set in January 2012 for my work with Evergreen … Continue reading
In the story of the Garden of Eden there’s an interesting interaction between God, the ultimate boss, and Adam, the original man: Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the … Continue reading
Recently I reviewed the strategic road map that consultant Terry Bass of Chadons Resources Group in Chicago helped us develop in October 2008. As I look at our strategic road map I am reminded of General Dwight Eisenhower’s observation: “In … Continue reading
Recently I asked one of the farmers at Plow Creek to describe pruning. In February each year he and another farmer or two prune our two acres of blueberries. I assumed that the he and the others are doing a … Continue reading
When life stops making sense, I start writing poetry. The first time I began writing poetry was in my late teens when I was trying to make sense out of becoming disabled wit rheumatoid arthritis at age 17. Occasionally life … Continue reading
It’s been three months since I posted and, after reading my posts back through November, I can see that I have been studiously avoiding the central events of my life. I don’t know whether I was being wise or dishonest. … Continue reading
Last night after the Super Bowl I watched CBS’s new Undercover Boss. The President and COO of Waste Management went undercover in his own company and for a week did frontline jobs ranging from working neighborhood garbage pickup to cleaning … Continue reading
A year or so ago, Lavonna, a young Haitian woman. began attending our church. She has USA documents but her two young children did not have papers and still lived in Haiti. She worked with the State Department and secured … Continue reading