I was honored recently to speak to the students of the Cole’s College of Business at Kennesaw State University. I’ve been doing what I do in business for a long time, I’m a dinosaur in my eld. I told them stories about the Texas oil eld circa 1981, stories about being homeless with a young family, about being...

Ed Quinn is a neighbor and friend who was the first to move full time into a remote North Georgia mountain valley surrounded by many second homes of the Atlanta up and coming. Being the only full-time resident, he was left to adapt to mountain living by trial and error. And so came the following phone call between him and the Department of Natural Resources one day...

We have a picnic table in front of our Atlanta-based Supply Chain company’s corporate office that borders hundreds of acres of public woodlands. It is where this CEO frequently takes a meeting and shares his humidor stock with attendees. These sessions usually begin at the end of the day and go late into the evening.

My wife and I took our young children to the same guest ranch in Granby Colorado for ten years. The same families would schedule “their week” so we would all be there together, along with new families from all over the country.  The ranch sits at 8,500’ and the early morning temperature in early August dips down into the thirties.