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“A Bridge Too Far:” Confronting Reality with Faith and Grace
As demonstrated throughout history, leadership requires a foundation not only of ambition but also of a brutal clarity about the present reality. Reflecting on Operation Market Garden during WWII, we see the consequences of a vision untethered from reality. This ambitious Allied operation aimed to secure key bridges in the Netherlands to accelerate the end…
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Food Product – Pricing Model
An executive with a leading national brand food product company approached Provident with an issue of constrained manufacturing related to their ability to service a significant national account. One the client’s customers purchased only as a backup supply to their own unreliable manufacturing process. They would intermittently purchase large quantities, demanding short delivery schedules. Drawing…
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Food Service – Operations
The way we have always done it, was the root of an issue in which one client failed to see that their business had outgrown its original customers. A manufacture of a liquid food ingredient that once sold small quantities to customers in 50 gallon drums, had now grown to a large national supplier delivering…
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You can’t escape your perspective, You can get a better one.
Relationship is that place where we can find the extremes of pain and joy. With greater engagement come greater intensity of each. We have been created to be in community and to grow from the experience of seeing things bigger than us.
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When pressed, What comes out is what went in.
The most basic level of thinking ahead, is choosing and planning the type of character that we wish to exhibit, then tenaciously holding to that ideal no matter what storm of circumstance breaks against our vision.
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Slow down, you don’t have time to rush
No matter how urgent the situation, an appropriate amount of analysis and reflection will inevitably benefit the outcome.
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