Research shows millions of Baby Boomers will sell or close their businesses during the next 10 years and 72 percent of them lack a succession plan. That is a substantial amount of jobs and valuable businesses at stake.
Kudos to the raid warriors, remote workers, gig freelancers, and entrepreneurs who live through the headaches of business travel to support our economy. Great Falls is such an easy and pleasant airport to fly in and out of!
You can probably name a couple of grocery stores in a 10-mile radius of your home, but for folks living in Geraldine, MT depending on their location, some couldn’t name one in a 70-mile radius two years ago, but today that’s all changed.
“We’re now the third fastest micropolitan area in the United States for the second year in a row.” Joe Unterreiner, President of the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
Two decades of credos, from, “Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy,“ to, “We prioritize work that results in measurable impact for our customers.”
This summer, Bower will attend the Montana Startup Academy, where teens from across the state will meet with MSU professors in Bozeman to try to solve world problems through business.
Here are five solutions from a classic essay by Paul Graham on “Ideas for Startups” that I believe have even more potential in today’s fast changing environment:
The organization connects Montana businesses to resources or other local companies that can help with background logistics like finance, hiring and site selection.
The challenges we face today will be fundamentally different because they won’t be solved by humans alone, but through complex human-machine interactions.
Nobody will tell you that’s why you didn’t get the job. But an apparent lack of interpersonal skills is often the underlying reason candidates get passed over.