Steve M. Scheel, CEO of Scheels, and a few associates were recently featured in the Fargo INC! article "HOW TO BUILD A BUSINESS THAT WILL LAST, THE SCHEELS WAY."
What does it take to make a 115-year-old company a great place to work and shop?
Scheels'...
We assert that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and—if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentration all its desires and powers upon it—we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
Becoming belongs to the heights and is full of torment. How can you become if you never are? Therefore you need your bottommost, since therefore you are. But therefore you also need your heights, since there you become.
By Chief Executive Optimist of The Life is good Company Bert Jacobs
I met BJ 3 years ago at a business conference in Chicago. He led a group of 25 or so CEO's through a workshop. When the session was over, he and I went out for a few beers at a local dive bar. We had some good laughs and a meandering, yet riveting conversation. I found it refreshing that he didn't need to tell me about his accomplishments. I meet interesting people in my travels all the time, and I am sometimes the type that connects instantly, but this was different. Midway through our conversation, it became apparent to me that BJ and I would be friends for the rest of our lives.