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Working with people who have different personality styles than your own can be like understanding a different language.
Comment/Columns, Depth of Field

VIDEO: What’s your true colour?

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

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Figuring out what makes others tick, as well as ourselves, is likely to be a lifelong pursuit. Logically, I know that others do not see things in the same way as I do. But in reality, that is a reoccurring lesson. In a recent workshop on personality styles, it occurred to me that what is […] Read more
Dittmer: Dodging government interference and processing facts
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Dodging government interference and processing facts

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Two bills, one that would insert federal government agencies into the cattle marketing business and one that would create a Special Investigators unit within USDA, have been voted out of committee in the U.S. Senate. Both bills were opposed by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and many free-market-oriented cattle producers, especially those participating in branded, differentiated […] Read more
“We reach a point when realizing that it is no longer money that we may be short of, but time.”
Comment/Columns, Depth of Field

Relationships support transition planning

There are a number of questions you need to ask yourself when transitioning to the next stage

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Continuing with the succession planning or transitioning theme, along with a major milestone birthday, I can’t help but reflect from my senior generation position — even though I can hardly believe that is now my vantage point. In his book The Legacy Spectrum, Mark A. Weber stresses, as I have also done, that the process […] Read more
Politicians and bureaucrats talk about making the supply chain “resilient.” What they mean is, they want the industry to be able to continue no matter what happens. This could be accomplished, but it come at a huge cost.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Congressional hearings reveal little and much

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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With the Biden administration drowning in bad poll results from bad policies, this is a bad time to be in its crosshairs. Both the House and Senate held beef industry hearings in April. The Senate “examined” the Fischer-Grassley bill seeking to mandate regional minimums on negotiated cash trade. They also referenced another bill calling for […] Read more
The relationship between politics, crime and oligarchy is a tangled web.
Comment/Columns, Vet advice

Oligarchs debase EU agriculture

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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A new week started on the first day of spring 2018. The collection of cars and half tons in the parking lot at the local burger joint meant the “Circle of Wisdom” had already started their daily debate, enriched with weekend news stories and beginning stages of sports playoffs. The Circle is a cluster of […] Read more
Research shows that teams with a wide range of ages are more productive.
Comment/Columns, Depth of Field

Working between the generations

Life stage is important and not necessarily reflective of age

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If there is anything that reveals the chasm between the generations these days, I think it has got to be technology. When sharing the stories of acquiring the first cell phone (it was in a bag), I realized that was just before our middle daughter was born. In 1994. Sociologists studying human behaviour and interaction […] Read more
One of many resolutions to come out of the recent NCBA meeting was support for improvements to livestock marketing reports.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: After struggle, NCBA agrees on mandates

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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The mood of this year’s National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) live cattle marketing committee meeting was a lot different than the summer meeting in 2020. That 2020 meeting lasted over six hours, involved multiple roll call votes among affiliate groups and revealed a big chasm between the mostly cow-calf and the cattle feeder organizations. The […] Read more
Are the actions you’re taking guiding you towards a long-range shared vision?
Comment/Columns, Depth of Field

Decisions, decisions, decisions

These seven questions can help guide you to better decision-making

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If there has ever been a time of information overload, today would qualify. As we try to navigate through today’s challenges, an emphasis on or improvement in decision-making can be a good addition to the management tool box. Holistic management is often described as a decision-making framework. After setting a shared goal/vision, these seven testing […] Read more
Dittmer: Toxic brews of do-gooders, politicians and bureaucrats
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Toxic brews of do-gooders, politicians and bureaucrats

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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The problem with politics is that relative conservatives just want to be left alone to do things without unnecessary interference. Leftist activists want to save the world — or your world — by coercing behaviour. Which is why leftist ag groups and their enablers — leftist, big-government politicians and bureaucrats — keep trying to force […] Read more

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