by Michael Best | Nov 14, 2022 | Articles and excerpts
I’m an introvert. However, I didn’t fully appreciate what introversion is until I read Susan Cain’s, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Cain explains introversion as a preference for a quiet, more minimally stimulating environment. This...
by Michael Best | Sep 20, 2022 | Articles and excerpts
Here are reviews to be found on the back cover of Characters Who Can Make Or Break Your Small Business : “There is such an incredible wealth of wisdom in this book – and it’s possible to just dip into a chapter (character) at a time. I loved the...
by Michael Best | Aug 16, 2022 | Articles and excerpts
Think about your car’s dashboard. Depending on the model and the age of the car, the dashboard will have a varying number of dials, gauges, and digital readouts. They all tell you something about the performance of the vehicle (and sometimes a whole lot of other...
by Michael Best | Aug 2, 2022 | Articles and excerpts
(First posted in 2017 and subsequently published by Soundview Magazine. Now repeated because the message is timeless and warrants revisiting). I was recently dismayed to discover that my favourite art supply store was no longer offering free cookies. My first stop in...
by Michael Best | Jul 31, 2022 | Articles and excerpts
Picture yourself in a cottage in the woods. The sound of the lake lapping the sandy shore drifts in through the screen door on the warm, loamy forest air. A chipmunk scurries about on the wooden deck and beyond that, a solitary fisherman sits in a small aluminum...
by Michael Best | Jul 30, 2022 | Articles and excerpts
If you’ve not yet experienced business banking, you might be wondering whether it’s an exaggeration to suggest that bankers and small business owners dwell in different worlds. Be assured, it’s not. Bankers live in a nine-to-five bureaucratic world of policies and...
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