Ray Thompson - HoF

Summary : Ray Thompson showed the world that you don’t have to be in the valley to be competitive

Ray Thompson (2006) showed the world that you don’t have to be in the valley to be competitive

You can be anywhere, as long as you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your local environment and adapt to them
Flying into the wind with private aircraft, he gained massive lift from being in Montana
Journalists may hate it, but no one can deny that it works
Another thing was having a stable workforce that wasn’t polishing resumes, while thinking about the next job and the pay increase it would bring
Relying on this allowed Ray to build an extremely responsive company--almost too extreme in fact

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