Jojo Meyers
July Featured Member
Carson City Chapter

Time management. Team building. Communication. Leadership. If you’ve owned or worked in a business in the last 20 years, you’ve heard these terms – sometimes to the point of not hearing them at all. But what if you and your employees actually had the chance to have these words become something that you could fully understand, and you were given the tools and the follow-up to implement the ideas behind the words? What a difference a workplace could be, says Jojo Myers, owner of Matrix Leadership, a leadership development company.

Myers started her business two years ago and works with individuals, small to big companies and corporations and parts of corporations. With the downturn in the economy, Myers has also seen a greater need for what she offers. She says that downsizing, having one employee do the job of three, budget cuts, changes in management – all of that causes fissures in a workplace, and owners and individuals can turn to Myers to put it all back together.Click Here for more.

Networking Lessons From Nature

From the founder, Dr. Ivan Misner

Recently, when visiting our favorite Napa Valley winery, Chateau Montelena, my wife and I toured the operations. The vintner shared the technique the winery uses to ensure the quality of the juice from the grapes year after year, regardless of the climate; it's a technique known as "dry farming."

As he explained the benefits of dry farming, I began to see a business metaphor for how BNI works for our members' businesses.

When vineyards are dry farmed, they are not irrigated—dry season or rainy. As a result, the roots of the vines must grow deep to tap into the year-round underground supply of water. This reminds me of how BNI teaches our members to develop deep-water relationships to support growth no matter the climate—even the economic droughts. Click here for the rest of this article.