by Ben Kafferlin | Feb 19, 2015 | Featured
About this time last year, I had the opportunity to romp through England, Wales and Scotland. Exploring ancient abbeys and graveyards made me feel an odd kind of hiraeth—a Welsh term, fittingly, that refers to “a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a...
by Ben Kafferlin | Jan 17, 2015 | Featured
Brandon Zaffini & Ben Kafferlin Today’s entrepreneur would benefit from an occasional history lesson. She would do well to heed the advice of ancient philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. Really. Consider the following from Aristotle, a theorist who was not...
by Ben Kafferlin | Dec 24, 2014 | Featured
One of Charles Dickens’ most beloved characters reforms his churlish ways only after confronting his past, present and future on the night of Christmas Eve. And though discomforting, we Americans would ourselves benefit from reflecting, like Scrooge, on our past and...
by Ben Kafferlin | Dec 23, 2014 | Featured
One of my earliest memories is of a cold, dark night in the backseat of my parent’s Century Buick on the way to see my grandfather for Christmas. I distinctly remember listening to beautiful old hymns on a wobbly tape as we passed houses adorned with Christmas...
by Ben Kafferlin | Aug 12, 2014 | Featured
Running a consulting firm requires constant networking, so I take advantage of any opportunity to distribute business cards and make new connections. I even passed a stack down the table at a family reunion this summer, hoping fresh leads would come of it. So far,...
by Ben Kafferlin | Jul 1, 2014 | Featured
If you’ve ever seen the 1994 epic Legends of the Fall starring Brad Pitt, you might remember a disturbing scene. During a WWI skirmish, the main character, Tristan (Pitt), runs through the forest to take out two German machine gunners about to fire on his...
