Swift Straw Blog

I recently listened to a podcast with Mark Manson who is authoring a new book with actor Will Smith. After spending several months with Will traveling the world working on various projects, he was amazed at how much Will actually gets done in a given day. When he asked Will how he does it, here are...

Culture can be defined as the customs or way of life for a particular group of people. Although we have seen examples of culture used to define countries, cities, town and businesses, it is rarely used to define a family unit. The first step in creating a company culture is to establish a mission,...

In his book “Never Split the Difference”, hostage negotiator Chris Voss always does two critical things. He makes the person feel like they are in control by leading with questions, and he mirrors or repeats back to them what they just said so they feel heard and understood. Both tactics are...

The other day I heard a great interview with Jeff Bezos. Here are a few takeaways:

This year we opened up a new harvesting operation in Mississippi. Since the terrain is totally different than anything we have ever worked in before, we had to discover and create an entirely new process from scratch. Over the last few months we have worked tirelessly, testing different types of...

What would you think if someone gave you a bag of dog food and told you that it was guaranteed to make your dog severely over weight, highly fatigued AND increase their risk of cancer by 500%. Oh, and they would also be guaranteed to develop some type of chronic illness that would require...

As a society we are very quick to focus on suppressing symptoms. Just look at modern medicine where there is a pill for every ill. You can suppress heart burn with a purple pill, or you could discover which foods are causing the heart burn and stop eating those? When it comes to our physical...

Robert Frost said, “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self confidence.”