Business week quote, what do you think business leaders need to learn

Written By Robin Wade

what do you think business leaders need to learnWhat do you think business leaders need to learn. 

I'm so far behind on my blog posts.  Have lots of pics and stories, and catching up.  But I just saw that I was quoted in Business Week, and just couldn't help but share.

When I was first contacted (November 1) by Vanessa Wong of Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, I actually thought it must be some kind of scan, junk mail, hoax.  I googled her, and decided it might be legit.  Well, looks like it was.  And I think my response to this week's Business Week question, of What do you think business leader's need to learn" was just off the wall enough, that they had to run it.

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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