Archive for January 2024
KDP Certified Public Accountants, LLP Merges with Bend-Based Accounting Firm Price Fronk & Co.
via KDP press release www.kdpllp.com Medford, Oregon (January 17, 2024) KDP Certified Public Accountants, LLP, and Price Fronk & Co., announced today that their professional accounting and advisory firms merged on January 1, 2024. This merger combines the skills and expertise of two long-standing Oregon firms; KDP in Southern Oregon and Western Idaho and Price…
Read MoreHappy New Year!
A Few Words from Jim January 2024 Happy New Year! 2024 is off to a great start. I had the opportunity to have an amazing lunch at the Twisted Cork in Grants Pass with Trever Yarrish and he shared with me his end of year ritual when I asked him what he did to celebrate…
Read MoreTribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups for Organizational Success
Tribal Leadership is a book that explores how the culture of any organization can be improved by understanding and influencing the tribes that exist within it. The authors, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright, based their book on a 10-year study of 24,000 people in more than two dozen organizations. They discovered that there…
Read MoreMore Hispanic families are reaching the middle class
By Tim Henderson – December 28, 2023 https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/12/28/more-hispanic-families-are-reaching-the-middle-class/ The Hispanic middle class has grown faster than the white or Black middle class in the past decade and has reached near-parity with the white middle class in seven states, according to a new Stateline analysis. Between 2012 and 2022, the percentage of Hispanic households in the country…
Read MoreOregon Gov. Kotek’s first year in office took her to 36 counties. Here’s what she learned.
By: Julia Shumway – January 9, 2024 https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/01/09/oregon-gov-koteks-first-year-in-office-took-her-to-36-counties-heres-what-she-learned/ COTTAGE GROVE – Tina Kotek peered into a metal microshelter on a brisk December afternoon, turning with a question to Kris McAlister, executive director of the homelessness nonprofit Carry It Forward in the small Lane County city. The governor had seen a lot of microshelters like the dozens of…
Read MoreThe cornerstones of long-term, sustainable business success
By Lisa Manyon WriteOnCreative.com There are four cornerstones of long-term, sustainable, business success: Each of these elements must be in place to ensure your marketing success and long-term business sustainability. While these cornerstones are invaluable, it’s imperative that you deliver on your promises. We’ll talk more about that later. In order to get your big mission and message…
Read MoreOpinion: Why Incentives to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas Haven’t Worked
BY ARJUN V.K. SHARMA 01.11.2024 – This article was originally published on undark.org Opinion: Why Incentives to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas Haven’t Worked IN THE 1960s and 1970s, researchers offered financial incentives to patients to get them to lose weight, quit smoking, and abstain from alcohol. To some degree, it worked. But when governmental bodies proffered a pecuniary boon…
Read MoreTurning off Cable TV —-
When do you make a decision to stop providing a service? By Jim Teece CEO Ashland Home Net JimTeece.com Ashland Home Net has been a CABLE TV, Internet and Phone company for nearly two decades. I remember going to my first CABLE TV conference. I’m from the tech world, so I’m used to big lavish…
Read MoreJunction City Jumps into the Fast Lane with Hunter’s High-Speed Internet!
By Caitria Aldrich HunterFiber.com Press Release Hunter Communications, a respected local leader of cutting-edge internet solutions, is pleased to announce the expansion of its high-speed fiber internet service to Junction City. This significant step enhances the connectivity landscape and provides reliable internet access to the community from a local company that truly cares about its…
Read MoreSouthern Oregon University President Rick Bailey celebrates 2 years at the helm
By Jim Teece JimTeece.com I got a “Happy New Years” card from the President of Southern Oregon University, Rick Bailey, this year and proudly held it above my head and danced around the room showing it to Dena and the dogs. With the dance moves I was making you would think that I was starring…
Read MoreThe Baby Boomer Effect
Legacies follow generations affecting others that follow. Some are created by a single event, others built over a lifetime, some overlap one lifetime over another. How will we be remembered? How will I? Do we have any way of controlling what the legacy may be? Can we have more than one legacy or is it…
Read MoreSuccess Building in 2024
Some of the most fascinating aspects of business management revolve around the nature of change as a business progresses through the stages of the Business Lifecycle. The lifecycle analogy is similar to human development where there is a start, growth, maturity and decline phases as a stylized structure to understand the dynamics of business change…
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