Farming in the forest, agroforestry, can take many forms, from the local friend who’s growing truffles on his wooded suburban acreage to friends in the mountains who share food with neighbors and sell in local popup markets. The existing forest environment already provides years of mulch, compost, and topsoil with the added benefit of absorption…
“Create Your Master File” is the first step of the Roadmap on the Veterans page on this website. This file keeps you ready for any move you decide to make and ensures that you’re never caught off guard by the whims of employers. Don’t let it be a roadblock. It’s just the onramp. You’re not…
“The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure:…
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ? Eleanor Roosevelt “What if …?” is the first step to getting where you want to be. Sometimes, the solution will be as simple as the story about the…
People talk about the benefits of an open-door policy. Not everyone takes advantage of all the benefits, Traffic flows two ways through a door. Let them in. Get out on the shop floor. Get out of the building. LET THEM INMake sure employees know they can come to you with ideas and concerns. At one…
First, rather than go with the trend to continuously elongate acronyms, I’ll stick with JEDI for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. It’s beyond me how Belonging and Accessibility are not part of Equity and Inclusion. Besides, I like the “power” of the term JEDI. I can already see you waving your politically correct light saber…
My daughter pointed out the Woodpecker on the remains of a burned tree after a Tuolumne County fire near our old cabin. A bright spot in a primarily black landscape. Snag is not a pretty word but, for some fire survivors, it’s home sweet home. There are many reasons to leave a snag (or a…
If you’ve already checked out the Roadmap on the ReBoot for Veterans page, you know that step 2 is about building your network. If you plan to look for work in civilian companies or to work with civilians at all, the line that says, “Keep it professional wherever you are.” Is critical. Almost anyone can…
“I thought you were my friend. I’ve already had a stroke on the job and now you’re trying to kill me.” It wasn’t the reaction I expected when I brought Tommy the wonderful news that he was getting a computer and access to the inventory system. I was there as a consultant, making continuous improvement…