As the Saw Turns

by Jim Obermeyer How to write “I changed a light bulb” on your resume: “Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of a new environmental...

by Jim Obermeyer I recently read an article in a conservation magazine about woodland prescribed burns. These are intentionally set and managed fires in a...

by Jim Obermeyer When we made it through the Great Recession ten years ago, I told myself, I never want to do that again. If...

by Jim Obermeyer My wife and I have been married close to 40 years, and we dated and were engaged for another five years prior...

by Jim Obermeyer Time for a bit of a rant: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the value of relationships in our industry—building and...

by Jim Obermeyer I recently attended a leadership session led by one of my favorite speakers on the topic. In this session he was talking...

by Jim Obermeyer Think back to some of the people you have met over the course of your lifetime. And think for a moment about...

by Jim Obermeyer If you’ve read this column more than several times in the past, you probably know that a favorite part of my job...

by Jim Obermeyer While wandering the aisles of EXHIBITORLIVE on the last afternoon of the show, I stopped by the ECN booth and was chatting...

by Jim Obermeyer My mom and dad bought their first–and only–home in 1955. A ’50s era three-bedroom brick ranch home. A home where my brother...