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VIDEO: Failing well on the farm
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VIDEO: Failing well on the farm

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Is there such a thing as failing well? Dr. Amy Edmondson of the Harvard Business School thinks so and explores the subject in her latest book, The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Consider times in the past when you have experienced failure. Were some of them done poorly and some done […] Read more
Agriculture is a business. So, in our operations, we need to consider not only the technical (or production) aspects but also the business side of it.
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VIDEO: Entrepreneurial myths revisited

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Close to 30 years ago, Michael Gerber wrote The E-Myth and founded a small business development support/coaching company. (E-myth stands for entrepreneurial myth).  “It is self-evident that businesses, like people are supposed to grow; and with that growth, comes change,” Gerber wrote.  He recognized that small businesses have significant challenges and many of them are […] Read more
When confronted with large and difficult decisions, one author suggests giving them some space, letting the ideas percolate and then coming back to them for better solutions.
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Conscious and subconscious brain: It’s all in our heads, or is it?

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

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Simon Sinek, author and inspirational speaker, has some very interesting ideas on our brain and how it works. He relates our conscious brain to being in the range of two feet. We can access all the information that is in that two-foot area to make quick decisions. This is also the logical, thinking, rational part […] Read more
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VIDEO: Positive psychology

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The other day when trying to determine price insurance coverage for grass yearlings, we received a text from our buyer: “This is not for the faint of heart.” This caused me to reflect on non-ag businesses who, from my perspective, do not seem to have to deal with so many variables beyond their control. However, […] Read more
VIDEO: David Irvine on clarity, character and connection
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VIDEO: David Irvine on clarity, character and connection

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

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While preparing for a recent holistic management conference which featured David Irvine as the keynote speaker, I came across a video that we had done at an earlier conference. Much earlier — 1990, in fact.  Irvine is referred to as the leadership navigator. He has worked extensively with organizations, teams and families as a speaker […] Read more
To achieve an effective outcome, it’s important to have a strong sense and understanding of self before having strong positive interactions with others, suggests one author.
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VIDEO: It’s all about the people

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

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In the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of touring around all three of our westernmost provinces for grazing plan workshops, holistic management courses and sessions related to the On-Farm Climate Action Fund. It still strikes me that we really are in the best industry in the best country and it is all […] Read more
“When there is a genuine vision (as opposed to the all-too-familiar ‘vision statement’), people excel and learn, not because they are told to but, because they want to.”
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VIDEO: Systems learning

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In the early ’90s, leadership expert Peter Senge wrote a book called the The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. At the time, the ideas were a helpful guide to navigating the pace of change we were encountering. Now, over 30 years later, I think it is still relevant as it […] Read more
VIDEO: On memory and the art of remembering
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VIDEO: On memory and the art of remembering

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There is a good chance the topic of memory is more of a concern to those of us in the over-forty category than the younger set. Forgetting things is completely normal, according to neuroscientist and author Dr. Lisa Genova. Genova’s book, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, explains that forgetting where […] Read more

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