LEADERSHIP MATTERS

A few years ago, a close friend and mentor called asking me to participate in a meeting with key sales executives of a company that had filed for bankruptcy, then liquidated. The stated purpose was to help them with their careers going forward. I used it as an...

Adapt, grow, innovate, or die

The Global Forest Products Industry, as an industry segment, expends vast amounts of capital on plants, equipment, market share, and resources. Within the Forest Products segment, as a primary industry, new products and product innovation come at a slow pace. Highly...

THE POWER, AND VALUE OF TRUST

The caller was British. With a hint of Dutch. He owned a smallish ($25mm) company a few hundred miles from me, and needed a CEO and Board Member. He wanted to take the lumber from the woods, bring it to the mills, make logs from it, and sell it. Clearly, it was not a...