May 18, 2020 | As the Saw Turns, Columns, Features
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 you were there—and I suspect many of you were—I’m sure you had similar thoughts. But here we are. Not exactly the same, but just as potentially...
Apr 13, 2020 | As the Saw Turns, Columns, Features
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 to that (we started when we were two…). And for that entire time, she has been a nurse. Operating room, intensive care unit, pre-op and...
Feb 17, 2020 | As the Saw Turns, Columns, Features
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 maintaining strong client relationships to build a business. More and more we are faced with responding to RFPs where we never get...
Dec 2, 2019 | As the Saw Turns, Columns, Features
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 about how leaders must learn to lead in all directions – “up” (those you report to); “down” (those who report to you); “around”...
Sep 30, 2019 | As the Saw Turns, Columns, Features
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 how you met them. Was it purely a matter of circumstance that you were actually in the same place at the same time and then met that person?...
Jul 29, 2019 | As the Saw Turns, Columns, Features
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 is being on the show floor. There are a lot of reasons I say that. All of the work that all of our teams—those inside our company and...
