David's Articles

David has been writing and blogging for over 10 years

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Excellence is not just for productivity bros

Is excellence little more than just hyped up efficiency? The Internet is good for many things, the creation of new terms for example. Terms like "Bro" and “Bro Culture” originally were an attempt to group and characterize a certain type of...

The Middle School Rule

Parenting a middle schooler is fraught with challenges. The inner life of an emerging adult - desperate not only to self-individuate but also not sure of being ready to leave the comforting dependency of childhood - is laden with minefields. Yet when...

My New Book – The Family Enterprise Playbook

buy here The Family Enterprise Playbook: A Framework for Action How Do You Build a Family Enterprise?How do you know if you are successful in doing so? I have wrestled with these 2 questions for the last 2 years, since publishing my first book. Over that time, from...

Books Read During Q3’23

Photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels.com Here is a complete run down of what I read during Q2. Investing The Bond King by Mary Child - Having ‘grown up’ in the market’s reading Bill Gross’ writing, I was curious to learn more. This was a good, but not great in my...

Great Benefits Arise When Management and Board Know Their Role

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In our first post about organizational governance, we concluded that there were three primary focal areas of governance: Identification of goals - aka purpose and vision Pursuit of those goals - aka strategy Social structure - how the...