In this blog series, I am sharing stories my Dad shared with us as we were growing up about business—and now I see about life. Dad loved business. He loved sales in particular and through his experiences selling and brokering scrap and steel for 39 years across the nation, he had a lot of stories […]

My Dad was the quintessential businessman of the 60s … a salesman when sales meant being on the road in a car weeks at a time covering “territories.” He would often be gone all week, or even two, driving from our home in Iowa to South or North Dakota or Minnesota and back. That was […]