Protecting the Family [Tree] Farm
Even if you don’t have plans to sell standing timber or logs off your property, someone may be logging your property, illegally. Timber theft is a real threat today, as timber is still a valuable commodity.
Does Your Business Have the Insurance It Needs?
Holmes County, Ohio, is home to many successful small businesses and is the area’s leading small business development area. You or a loved one may be part of a small business success story. One word that may make small business owners cringe is “insurance.” Have you reviewed your small business insurance policy lately? Do you …
Conflict
As an employer, are you communicating your expectations to your employees? Are you having honest conversations over what you need from them the first week you hire them and throughout their employment with your company? Are you setting boundaries with them about what is acceptable in your workplace and not acceptable? Have you thought enough about what those boundaries are to communicate that to new hires?
Creating Value vs. Creating Something Valuable
So much of our journey is wrapped up in value creation, that we neglect to create something that is valuable. But the journey to creating something valuable starts where the journey to create value ends. And for a business to truly be valuable it must be able to continue to generate value if the original primary value generator is gone.
Giving Testimony: High Anxiety Part 2 – The Number One Mistake
Welcome to Part Two of my series of observations on the high anxiety of giving testimony. In this part, the number one mistake made by witnesses. Giving testimony is really a fairly simple procedure. Attorneys ask questions and witnesses give answers. Most questions are about something the witness has experienced. So, a good pattern of …
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Giving Testimony: High Anxiety Part 1
As a lawyer and judge, I have been around people giving testimony for about 40 years. Every time I reach the end of a trial or a round of depositions (before trial testimony given in lawyers’ offices), I promise myself to write about the experience that I have seen so many go through (and occasionally …