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Stories 2019: How Did It Go?
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing and then posted a 2018 update. How did ...
Managing Risk by Screening Out Trouble
My work as a researcher in forestry sometimes highlights ideas relevant to developing plans or managing risk in ...
Stories 2018: How Did It Go?
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing in earnest. So, how did it go this past ...
Communicating in Public: How to Prepare and Deliver a Wedding Toast
Since clipping on my first tie as a child, I’ve sat through many a wedding speech. Unfortunately, most memorable ...
The Most Important Person on the Team
Who is the most important person on your team? As much as we’re “all created equal,” we join and work with teams ...
6th Edition of “Forest Finance Simplified” Now Available!
Forisk Press recently published the 6th Edition of the Forest Finance Simplified book by Dr. Brooks ...
Stories 2017: How Did It Go?
In 2017, I began submitting and tracking my fiction writing in earnest. How did it go?
From August through ...
How to Read an Annual Report (if you only have 20 minutes)
Quarterly financial statements and annual company reports are the language of investors and executives. At the end ...
The Math of Investing and Our Unease with Rational Thought
Professor Richard Thaler won this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics, in part, for research confirming that we ...
Communicating in Public: How to Make Effective Impromptu Comments
At times, you will feel compelled or asked to share your opinion in a meeting, at a business event or during a ...
When Do We Overvalue Investments?
In 1990, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman and two colleagues published a study documenting how we can ...
Common Errors and Potential Approaches for Evaluating Investment Strategies
Understand how to understand and frame the current situation. [That was not a Rumsfeldian typo.] Executives and ...