Charlie Dexter
Inside Business columnist
Charlie Dexter is a professor of applied business at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tanana Valley Campus. He can be reached at 455-2837. This column is provided as a public service of the TVC Applied Business Department. Copies of this column can be found at www.CharlieDexter.com.
Recent Stories
- Charity does not necessarily begin at home
- Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
- Once upon a time as travelers approached a town, they first would see the spires of a cathedral and the towers of a castle. From these two institutions, church and state, degrees of health and prosperity were woven into the fabric of communities. As travelers approach modern towns, they first see the gleaming towers of commerce, which sew quilts of health and prosperity in their communities.
- Good leaders spend most of their time in the future
- Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009
- The futurist Joel Barker defines a leader as “someone you choose to follow to a place you would not go to by yourself.”
- Live a self-transcended life with no regrets
- Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009
- We lost a significant part of our community this summer when professor Susan Herman of the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management was taken from us by cancer.
- Retirement depends more on income than age
- Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
- Are you tired of waking up every morning to a mechanical rooster device before your biological clock says it is time to get up? Would you like to have a week, (every week of the year), with six Saturdays and a Sunday? Would you like to go anywhere you want and do anything you want, any time you want? Then the simple answer is to retire with a nice nest egg.
- Great leaders don’t run perfect organizations
- Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009
- Do you lead a perfect organization? If so, you have a big problem.
- Words are powerful weapons — for good and evil
- Sunday, July 19, 2009
- Do you remember when you got verbally assaulted by the playground bully back in grade school?
- How to deal with Dilbert characters in your organization
- Sunday, July 5, 2009
- Scott Adams’ award winning comic strip, Dilbert, is doing well 20 years after its debut on April 16, 1989.
- Good leadership comes in all shapes, sizes and ages
- Sunday, June 7, 2009
- While I’m rather concerned about a number of people in business and political leadership positions today, I am excited about Alaska youths who are emerging as leaders for tomorrow.
- The world belongs to those who make their dreams come true
- Sunday, May 24, 2009
- In the book “Built to Last,” authors Jerry Porras and Jim Collins introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goals, or BHAGs, concept as a way for companies to enhance team spirit, reach goals and become profitable visionary companies.
- University of Alaska Fairbanks graduates know the opposite of success is not failure
- Sunday, May 10, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — This afternoon, hundreds of men and women will be honored by the University of Alaska Fairbanks for their persistence in achieving their personal academic goals.
