A collection of blogs and other writings
from John Ellsworth
Even More Ways to Achieve Financial Success
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Building a World Class Team! – Part II
Set goals for your Team and tell them what’s in it for them. For Coach K, it has been to win multiple gold medals for the United States. For you it might be to increase production per cow to a certain level or to reduce the average days open in your herd and shorten your calving interval. You decide. You might be surprised how interested your employees are in helping you reach your goals.
Dealing with Adversity!
Since early 2015, the dairy industry has been a difficult place to operate. Despite feed costs dropping considerably these past two years, the decrease in this expense area pales in comparison to the precipitous drop we have seen in milk prices since the end of 2014.
Keeping Your Business on Track!
To survive and thrive, we need to move faster, act more decisively, and respond more courageously. There has never been a better time to increase our efficiencies than now.
What’s Next?
As Victor Frankl said of his experience at Auschwitz, the vilest of Nazi concentration camps, his survival depended upon the realization that his old life was over. His new life and future would be vastly different. The same holds true for us in the dairy industry. The old game is over. We are in a new game now.
Should I be fixing my Interest Rates?
This is a question many people are asking. I believe it’s something we need to be looking at regularly.
The Change Leader
“The most effective way to manage change successfully is to create it.” These are the words of business management guru Peter Drucker.