Thoughts from an Industry Leader
Thoughts from an Industry Leader.
Today’s post is a from a guest blogger, Steve Day. Each Friday, you will see a new post here from our guest blogger. He will be offering his thoughts and ideas for four weeks. We are thrilled to have his reflections here.
Experience is invaluable. The Thoughts of a Respected Leader in the Industry.
Four years ago, I decided that I would officially retire on January 1, 2020. I immediately began my planning for a successful transition to my successor. That went quite well. My successor is definitely an upgrade and that is how it should be. I also started planning for a fun and exciting first year of retirement in 2020 which would include quite a bit of travel. As the Yiddish saying goes, “Man plans, God laughs”.
My good friend, Ron Slee, has become worried that my brain will turn to mush in the time of Covid-19. Unless, of course, I keep active, and so he has asked me to write an article for his blog. It’s really for my own good. Hopefully my experience will be invaluable to you.
I thought that I might write about something important that I did not focus on enough until way too late in my career. Training is at, or near, the top of my list of things I knew were important but did not focus on early enough. Some of the things I am going to talk about in the coming weeks are probably obvious and some of them require effort and assets that we are often unwilling to allocate. I think training is a particularly appropriate topic right now because it might be getting ignored a bit now during the time of Covid-19 budgeting.
This brief post serves to introduce you all to Steve Day. Please look for his wisdom every Friday.
