The Resilient Workforce: How Psychometric Testing Predicts Adaptability
When building a resilient workforce, adaptability isn’t a nice-to-have quality in employees; it's an essential component...
Key steps to consider before you sell your business
Through the years, I have worked with a number of family-owned businesses, including medium to large family farms, fertilizer companies, and…
Global Wine Trends To Follow in 2021
COVID-19 has caused major disruptions to most industries, but the wine industry has been particular hit due to closures of its…
Plant-Based is the New Organic, but Look Before you Leap
The plant-based food market is ripe with opportunity, but rushing to market with new products will likely lead to failure...
Recruitment Simplified - Part VII
Create a vision of something bigger. If we are being honest, we must admit that at a foundational level, we work…
Not-for-Profit: Managing Money with Strings Attached
Since time immemorial not-for-profit entities have had restrictions on the use of certain monies received, be it from a capital campaign,…
Recruitment Simplified - Part VI
Attracting and retaining employees is as much of a challenge today as it has been in recent memory. As the economy…
The New Normal
When does the “new normal” just become “normal”? I don’t know about you, but for the last year I have been…
Lesson from “Living Tiny”
It’s been nearly six months since we’ve gone tiny, and our family has definitely learned and grown a lot. The one…
The Importance of a Business Feasibility Study
A business feasibility study is simple in concept: Will a proposed line of business, product, service, or other business venture be…
Recruitment Simplified - Part V
In this, the 5th article in our “Recruiting Simplified” series, we will consider two frequent mistakes in the interview process…
Got Ghosted?
Valentine’s Day just came and went and it got me thinking about how at times recruiting can feel a little bit…
FRACTIONAL CFO OR CONTROLLER: WHEN IS IT THE RIGHT WAY TO GO?
While fractional CFO and finance services are nothing new, they have been noticeably trending for...
Recruitment Simplified – Part IV
Poor cultural fit is often cited as the most common reason a new hire does not work out long term, and…
In A Word
The New Year feels like it should usher in change and for many there are high hopes for 2021. It makes…