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Kingsford and Forest Gump

Andrew Penny, December 20 2022

Almost 30 years ago Forrest Gump summed up working at Kingsford this way, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” And so here, in Jeopardy style, is a sampler of what we learned this year… 1.     2,000  - How many padded rooms are  built each year in the United

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Leadership & Management

Clench your Cheeks

Andrew Penny, October 25 2022

I taught skiing, part time, for over 40 years. And during that time, I learned so much about skiing, teaching, and people. I also learned a great deal about staying warm; standing around for hours on end in windy -25C weather coaching downhill racers is not for the faint of

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Leadership & Management

We Stand With Ukraine

The Kingsford Team, March 1 2022

On this Tuesday we are reminded of an old song by Sting. He crafted the song ‘Russians’ at the height of the cold war in 1985 - four years before the Soviet Union collapsed under the autocratic weight of corruption and mismanagement. A recurring lyric in that song is “Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too”. It wa...

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