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What About Changes? A Lesson from the Side of the Interstate on Christmas Morning

By Matthew DeVries on December 26, 2019
Posted in Best Practices

You know that I have a lot of kids.  But what you may not know is that our family went through a major change last year—their mom and I got a divorce.  And so … like a construction project sometimes riddled with uncertainty … we each have a choice about how we are going to…

Best Practices: My Top Three Year-End and Year-Forward Assessments

By Matthew DeVries on December 30, 2009
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Everyone knows that this is a slow week for work … unless you work in retail and there is a mad, crazy 75% off sale. For me, I am using the time to clean up my legal files, assess the deadlines for the next three months, evaluate what went right in 2009, contemplate what went…

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