by Brooks Mendell | Mar 8, 2018 | Communication Skills, Leading/Managing, Sports
Who is the most important person on your team? As much as we’re “all created equal,” we join and work with teams comprised of higher performers and lower performers. Some salespeople exceed quota; others struggle to keep up. In sports, most players, at any given...
by Brooks Mendell | Mar 5, 2018 | Books
Forisk Press recently published the 6th Edition of the Forest Finance Simplified book by Dr. Brooks Mendell Forest Finance Simplified distills forest finance themes into a question-and-answer format for those who want an accessible reference or introduction to...
by Brooks Mendell | Jan 2, 2018 | Writing
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing in earnest. How did it go? From August through December, I submitted versions of 11 stories 23 times to 13 different outlets. By December 31, I pocketed 14 rejections and one acceptance (6.7%).That one...
by Brooks Mendell | Nov 7, 2017 | Learning, Thinking/Analysis
Quarterly financial statements and annual company reports are the language of investors and executives. At the end of the day, the results of managerial business and capital allocation decisions get translated through audited financial statements, which, like haikus...
by Brooks Mendell | Oct 21, 2017 | Forestry, Thinking/Analysis
Professor Richard Thaler won this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics, in part, for research confirming that we (humans) believe we are smarter and more rational than we actually are. Asked how he plans to spend the $1.1 million prize money, Thaler replied, “I will try...
