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A Tale For Yesterday

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There is an email that goes around roughly once a month about a CEO who decides it is time to pick a successor.  He calls together all his top talent and gives them each a seed. He says, “I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you.  I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.” So the executives take home the seed and one guy can’t make it grow. He keeps doing the same thing and gets no result. He goes to the meeting at the end of one year, everyone else has a beautiful plant and he explains he couldn’t grow anything. The CEO picks him to be his successor because he’s the […] Continue reading

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Our Managing Partner, Kathy Breitenbucher, has been in business for almost 20 years. The lessons learned throughout her career have brought her to a place to offer businesses her expertise and understanding of how people get the job done. Read More…

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