We’ve recently been inundated by the news coming out of the NFL regarding domestic violence and child abuse perpetrated by some of the league’s star players, notably Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens, and Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings. Ray Rice was...
Recently one of my readers posed the following: “To be perfectly honest, I am ambivalent about this subject because I feel that most HR people concentrate far too much of their time and effort just talking, and talking, and talking some more about this subject, even...
Whether you’re a leader or a follower, to achieve optimal performance, it all begins with TRUST. But what does that really mean? Universally, to trust someone is to have confidence in them. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “People don’t care how much you know...
It’s no secret, the colder and wetter the weather outside gets, the less active we become and the fatter we get – horses and businesses are no different. And just as my horses are growing fat and lazy standing in the pasture waiting for their next handout...
This weekend as I was watching a professional horse trainer work with a horse that had a nasty habit of kicking anytime he didn’t like something and didn’t want to do what was asked of him, I realized the horse not only had a behavior problem, he also had a respect...
