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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

Mine was legendary humorist and media figure Cactus Pryor. His father, Skinny Pryor, owned a movie theatre and entertained audiences with comedy routines during intermissions. Today, when I use nouns as verbs and place business terms out of context to make people think creatively, I’m thinking back to Cactus Pryor.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. The Colonel had just founded a fast food empire called Kentucky Fried Chicken. About the Author.