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Krivanek Consulting offers new services for produce executives
DENVER, CO – September 25, 2023 – Julie Krivanek, President & CEO of Krivanek Consulting, the produce industry’s top executive...
PTO: Pluses and minuses
PTO: one of the many acronyms whose meaning I was too embarrassed to ask. Now I know: it stands for...
Nepotism and the produce family business
In following the produce industry, I’ve always been impressed by the large number of family businesses and the commitment that...
Underperforming employees: the all-important question
Rachel Turner, writing in Fast Company, has an article on how to talk to an underperforming employee. It’s good advice,...
Hard work = fair treatment
Here’s a curious statistic: 2.5 billion of the world’s workforce would work harder if their employers treated them better, according...
How to deal with politics in the workplace
Man, said Aristotle, is a political animal. It’s no surprise, then, that politics are seeping into all sorts of discourse—including...
Time to junk the performance review
The words “performance review” tend to evoke a visceral groan from supervisors and employees alike. Or, in the words of...
Portrait of a family business
“I would sincerely like to thank you for showing me what it means to hold onto something too long,” writes...
Why employees quit their managers
I thought this article from Buzzfeed would be amusing, but it wasn’t. It was extremely sad. It’s about things that...
Red flags in job interviews
If you don’t have any hilarious job interview stories, you just haven’t been in the workforce. My favorite is that...
The $423,000 management tip
Is this management tip worth $423,000? You be the judge. The story goes back to the early twentieth century, when...
Of microaggression and heart attacks
Fairness may be more crucial to your bottom line than you think. My father had his first heart attack the...
Be a better business partner
We can all agree the produce industry is a people business built on trust, but we also know there are...
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