I Get A Boost Working With My Competitors To Improve The Profession.
Today Nick and I took a drive up to Tomahawk to visit with some of our competitors at the Wisconsin chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters annual planning meeting.
It was a great meeting, renewing and growing friendships while exploring ways to train and improve ourselves and our profession.
It is nice as I grow older and realize how important it is to work with my competition so that we can all become better, knowing that the real competition is not with each other, but rather the reluctance of the public to work with people who they do not trust or admire.
I think that many professionals should learn this lesson as they smear their competition to prospects and the general public. Throwing mud will only serve to get both parties dirty, and create more do it yourselfers.
Then after the meeting we took another detour to visit a former competitor and good friend who is now a professor at the University’s Treehaven Field station near Tomahawk. It was a long visit where we discussed the latest GIS and other technical aspects of forestry that he specializes in along with hours of stories about projects that we have worked on together.
A long and tiring day and a late start on my rainy activities, but a good kind of tired.
Goodnight.
