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Finding Balance

Well, happy new year … and a happy new year it can be, despite today’s headlines. A colleague of mine said it best in that we have a boatload of problems but need to look at the bright side: Problems are really opportunities in disguise.

Our conversation reminded me of Paul Reid, CEO of Reid Petroleum Corp. in Lockport, N.Y., and the outgoing president of SIGMA. “Challenges bring out the best in us,”Reid said in his closing remarks at SIGMA’s recent conference in San Francisco. His words were short and sweet, but he was spot on.

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