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Fostering Fear

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” Reflect on that statement for a moment. You may even have an immediate connection to it, with your own delinquent “to-do’s” catapulting to the center of your attention.  It was entrepreneur, author, and investor Timothy Ferriss who most recently voiced this assertion [...]

2021-09-29T15:18:33-05:00September 29th, 2021|Blog|

The Obstacle Is The Way

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor and a Stoic philosopher.  On the throne from 161 to 180, he was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire. Marcus acquired the reputation of a [...]

2021-08-26T15:38:36-05:00August 26th, 2021|SRA Update|

Later Will Be Now Before You Know It

We have a question to ask you.  But you must slow down to answer it.  Stop scrolling. Take a moment.  Take a breath. Question:  Knowing what you know now, having all of life’s experiences thus far behind you, what would you do differently? The Present Why is this important?  Because if you are still reading [...]

2021-07-30T08:12:17-05:00July 30th, 2021|Uncategorized|

Are You a Carrot, an Egg or a Coffee Bean?

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were hard. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as the daughter solved one problem, a new one arose. Her mother [...]

2021-06-24T11:00:29-05:00June 24th, 2021|Blog|

Hiring, Onboarding and Retention – What is Your Plan? By Jim Fleming

May is the month for graduations. It is a month when schools across the land release their graduates into the workforce. For agriculture, the demand for people is huge. On average, we have 58,000 agricultural jobs come open each year and on average we graduate slightly over 35,000 students. Couple that to the fact that [...]

2021-05-26T11:54:37-05:00May 26th, 2021|Blog|

Paying Attention to Retention

You have likely started to see a shift in the headlines. No longer focused on what we have been through, the new emphasis is on what’s to come. Though it is impossible to predict the future, it certainly seems reasonable that the forecast could be correct: a mass employee exodus is coming. How can you [...]

2021-05-26T11:51:54-05:00May 26th, 2021|SRA Update|
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