We use a process at RMC to help families and business teams create a shared vision and a plan to achieve it. We start by asking a very basic question:…
In an earlier ProfitTips column I wrote about a young couple who, after attending a Ranching For Profit School, came home to meet a brick wall of resistance from the…
Many of us hope and fear that the next generation will want to be part of the family business. We hope because we feel validated that we must have done…
Life isn’t a fairytale. Sometimes regardless of how good our idea is, how well we listen, how well we prepare and plan, we still run into a brick wall of…
In The Ultimate Legacy, Dr. Don Jonovic says that the most critical issues in an estate plan are: Who will run what? Who will own what? How will you make…
You can’t monitor the health of land from a windshield.  You’ve got to have boots on the ground. Even then, we tend to look across the land rather than into…
Abby of Dear Abby, passed away last week.  I don’t intend to take her place dispensing relationship advice, but I do get my share of Dear Dave letters.  Here’s a…
In the last ProfitTips I asked you if you owned a business or a job.  I offered Robert Kiyosaki’s criteria from his book Cash Flow Quadrant: Could you leave for…
A Ranching For Profit School alumnus was talking to me about his financial goals. Â I asked how much profit he wanted to make. He told me he figured he needed…