I recently had the honor of speaking to Ameris Bank on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, SC. Charleston is one of my favorite cities in America. It is a port town that sits at the confluence of The Ashley, Cooper and Wando rivers as they flow into the Atlantic Ocean. The weather is generally very…
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Books about Military operations can be both fascinating, and filled with interesting lessons that can even be applied in business situations. Eric Blehm's "The Only Thing Worth Dying For" is no exception. His book details how a small U.S. Special Forces team escorted Hamid Karzai back into…
Continue reading…The New York Times recently featured a great piece on Zingerman’s deli, a real cultural fixture in the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It all started in 1982 with a really good sandwich. " a vision of a sandwich that was so large it would take two hands to pick up and when you finally bit into it,…
Continue reading…The Proof is In The Sauce...and In the Sales! Dean Cortopassi, affectionately known as "Dino," was a bootstrapping Central Valley farmer when he purchased Stanislaus in 1979 with the knowledge that 99 percent of all the processed tomato products consumed in the United States come from…
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