by Dennis Beaver | business, leadership
April 21, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “I am manager of the Trust Department in a branch of a small, Midwest bank. Our newly appointed Regional Manager has changed the bank’s money-management strategy, getting clients into vehicles which generate large fees for the bank at...
by Dennis Beaver | animal control, technology
March 03, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Does this situation sound familiar? You are out for a walk. Suddenly, you hear a dog — at first barking loudly — then growling, snarling and, with each second, getting louder and way too close. Visions...
by Dennis Beaver | homeowner's insurance, insurance, insurance claim, mediation, property damage, public adjuster
January 16, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “Filing your insurance claim after a wildfire is emotionally draining and should be done sooner rather than later to ensure your place in line is held,” says Los Angeles-based Karl Susman, an insurance broker for over 30 years. He...
by Dennis Beaver | education
December 10, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In our last two columns, we focused on the role of the school resource officer in junior high and high schools. To briefly review, an SRO is a law enforcement officer assigned to a school campus in a...
by Dennis Beaver | business, investment, lawyers
June 14, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver (If You Love to Cook, Don’t Open A Restaurant!) It is the American dream – successfully running your own business. But are you able to? Do you know the major errors which virtually assure failure? Friends of this column know...
by Dennis Beaver | accounting, business, patent
February 10, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver It is more than the American dream. Many would say that it is our birthright: starting a business. “Regardless of what kind of business,” observes Bakersfield-based CPA Michael Stevenson. “The risk of failure should always be kept...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, investment
March 22, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Note: This is the second installment of Dennis Beaver’s March 8 column. “Your readers, Dennis, who want this to be the year they go into business for themselves, must have a very good answer to this question: If I fail, what...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, psychology, workplace
March 5, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver We all want to do well on the job, right? But how often do we get ourselves into a real pickle – instead of being thought of as a go to person, stay away from me is tattooed on our forehead. “Nobody wants to be in that category,”...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership
April 23, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “Office politics,” says Boston-based Karen Dillon, “is impossible to avoid. But it is manageable if you know what not to do. As author of the Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics, Dillon provides a wealth of accessible,...
by Dennis Beaver | education, law school, lawyers
March 9, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Recently accepted by a mid-west law school, “Howard” wrote, “I never really studied much in college, cramming for tests and assume law school will be like that, but my wife tells me I will flunk out if I approach it that way. What do...
