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Just tell me what to do!

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There is no right answer.

Throughout my life I have spent a tremendous amount of time trying to understand the right answer for any given situation or circumstance when I needed to make a decision. I have spent a lot of time trying to decipher what the right answer is in a lot of those situations and found that there is a fundamental flaw in that question. It assumes there actually is a right answer to any situation. From my experience, except when it comes to decisions with a clear moral implication, there is rarely a single right answer. For me, it has typically been a spectrum of right. Not necessarily that there is anything wrong with one decision or the other, just that each one has different outcomes that will logically result.  Continue reading

What is Business?

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My first introduction and interest in business started while I was in Boy Scouts working on a Merit Badge on my way to Eagle Scout. I was about 12 year old and it was while reading the Personal Management merit badge book that I learned about the time value of money. The idea that you could flip the traditional model of trading your time for money completely upside down and have your money work for you was extremely compelling to me. I was fascinated with the idea and pursued everything I could find that would help me understand how to implement it in my life. I read every book I could get my hands on that covered making money, investing, or running a business. I setup meetings and lunches with people who seemed to be where I wanted to be and were willing to talk to me about it. 

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What does Healthy leadership look like?

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As my personal responsibilities have grown and I have moved further into leadership roles in my family and at work I have been working to get a better understanding of what good leadership looks like. There are a number of methods I have encountered from a variety of people over the years. One commonality I have noticed is that each person has a different style and philosophy (some very thoughtful and formulated and some less theoretical and more practical) and that each leader has found some key points, habits, techniques, or whatever you want to call them that work for them.

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