BBiss

Follower of Jesus, Husband, Father, Biosystems Engineer, VFL, T1D Dad

[Sarah Gallagher @sgallz_]

In 1990, Dolly Parton went on vacation in Ireland.

She walked into a local pub in County Kerry and delivered a flawless performance of Coat of Many Colors.

A heart of pure gold who made people smile across oceans.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: Researchers reveal the shape of a single photon for the very first time!

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@charliedbecker @TheLastRefuge2 @PageauJonathan Symbolism abounds!

The words that were for centuries shared & spoken are being shredded for tokens.

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@nurijanian Gary Hamel highlights competency as the base foundation unit of any strategy. He also employs the use of a Strategic Intent statement as the signpost for navigating towards the future. Great post, bringing product management together with these core principles.

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@RogerLMartin Legal action could be a second business for you…Chickens Come Home To Roost, LLC. 🤣

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@Riggs_martin @RogerLMartin Agreed. Foresight and divergent thinking gets <1% of the annual calendar and is usually activated just because an executive asked a question we don’t have recycled slides for.

Shouldn’t we balance/test foresight against required resolve for our winning aspirations?

[Steve Politi @StevePoliti]

We talked to nearly 100 people about youth sports in New Jersey and found a predatory industry that is leaving parents broke, exhausted and wondering how the games of their childhood took over their adult lives. Our six-month investigation: https://t.co/plE3w618qt

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@nurijanian Love this approach, contrasted to the value hierarchy modeling taught in common business schools. Digging into what is unsaid instead of what is said can sometimes lead to better frame definition, use, and value extraction. Excellent post thank you for sharing!

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@kakashiii111 Meh..

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Bestselling author, Mel Robbins, explains the simplest leadership principle:

"Leaders bring the weather. Your energy is the weather at your company."

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

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[Manthan Gupta @manthanguptaa]

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[BBiss @BioBiss]

@VolRecruiting98 Pick 6 against the tide.

[Mike and Jeff show @AgrisAcademy @AgrisAcademy]

My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill.

Cargill was/is the leading producer of critical staple ingredients such as flour, pasta, vegetable oil, and rice in VZ. I am not saying I agree with grabbing the dictator, but I did have a front row seat to the damage a kleptocracy did to innocent people.
1. The government took over our "minute rice" facility at gunpoint because we were "gouging" the nation's poor. The government was never able to run the plant. It never ran again. It was returned years later with no equipment inside
2. There are 1000's of generals in the army. They are each given a slice of the economy to loot. The large number of generals made it difficult to organize a coup against the regime.
3. The government opened grocery stores and sold staples below the cost we sold them to the government. In theory they used petro oil money to lower grocery prices. Our regular grocery outlets were forced out of business. When the government demanded we sell them products below cost we simply had to shut down. The populous became ever more dependent on the government handouts. (PS this is the mayor of New York City's proposal.
4. Dollars- We needed dollars to go buy raw materials like wheat from places like the US and Canada. The government would periodically allocate us some dollars that could only be spent for raw materials and freight. Eventually only the local companies that can and would pay bribes got dollar allocations. We had several facilities closed for lack of raw material
5. My employees liked working for Cargill. The office was an armed compound with access to a gym, high speed internet, global communications, and a weekly box of basic staples. Cargill provided a safe and secure environment if only for the working hours.
6. Employees became very close to others inside the apartment building. Going out on the street with a desperate population was not advisable.
7. I needed wood pallets for feed. We tried to export wood pallets to swap for grain. We refused to pay the bribes it would take to export the pallets
8. I once tried to set up a closed loop wheat planting to flour mill supply chain. A. They came and stole all the seed wheat for food. When we tried to ship in seed wheat in containers via US donors there was no way to get it out of the port without it being stolen
9. Livestock- Our feed business completely collapsed. Even if you could raise a pig, you couldn't defend it from being stolen. People with guns were hungry.
10. Employees- In the end my highly skilled team alone with other highly educated people chose to leave. Cargill often found jobs for them in other Latin countries. The regime was more than happy to see the well-educated leave the country. Setting these employees up with high quality stable jobs after fleeing remains one of the best things I ever did in my career. No one remembers millions in trading earnings.

This is a short list. In my opinion the first money spent needs to happen now and it needs to be food. The US is already on the clock. The current regime does not care if it starves the population. The orgy of theft will actually accelerate if they believe their days are numbered. VZ should be an outstanding customer of US grown ag products. Rice, bread wheat, veg oil ect. Feed the people first.

Jeff Kazin
Former head trading Cargill

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”

[BBiss @BioBiss]

@felixprehn Ai

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@pmarca You go @pmarca ! 🤣

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Nick Saban:
“To be a good player on your team, you have to affect someone else on the team. You have to cause them to play better by the way you play.”

Great players don’t just do their job.
They raise the standard for everyone around them.

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Before tonight's game we held a moment of silence in memoriam of Charlie Kirk.

Kirk founded the youth activist group “Turning Point USA” and had become a fixture on college campuses. Charlie Kirk, a husband and father of two children, was 31 years old.