Margaret Lund
Author's Articles
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Multi-stakeholder cooperative governance may not be familiar to many in the U.S. |
March 15, 2017 | |
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On September 28, members of Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse voted approval, by 62 percent of the members and 73 percent of the votes, of a proposal from the board of directors to sell the co |
103 November - December - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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Food co-op members know how important it is to “source” a product. |
127 November - December - 2006 | January 20, 2009 |
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Too many times, we have watched co-op borrowers valiantly launch expansion projects, only to struggle with the load of debt required to finance the quality of store demanded by today’s natural food |
129 march - april - 2007 | January 20, 2009 |
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Bear Stearns. UBS. |
136 may - june - 2008 | January 19, 2009 |
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Constitution of the Italian Republic (1947), Article 45: |
091 November - December - 2000 | January 8, 2004 |
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Look down -- you may be standing on a gold mine. Then again, your facility may be just a black hole you throw money down once a month. |
082 May - June - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Ask co-op members anywhere, "What's the purpose of this co-op, anyway?" and you'll likely get some variation of the answer, "To serve the members." Ask them how best to do that, how |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Profit alone does not guarantee success or even survival. |
085 November - December - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Legacy is the challenge of having the thrust of your life or your organization's be perpetuated beyond an individual lifetime. |
081 March - April - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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A relative recently gave one of us a book of pithy personal advice with the humble title of "How to do Everything Right" (we won't dwell on the reason for this particular gift). |
084 September - October - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Every lender probably has experienced some version of the following exchange: |
086 January - February - 2000 | January 8, 2004 |
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We think every day about what it costs to do different things -- 89 cents to buy a pound of organic bananas, seven dollars to see "Lethal Weapon 4," etc. |
079 November - December - 1998 | January 9, 2004 |
Planning is about thinking of what you would like to have happen and then making an educated guess about what is likely to happen in the marketplace and what you would reasonably |
066 September - October - 1996 | January 9, 2004 |
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Good systems show themselves by not showing themselves at all. In a well run store, product, people, and purchases flow in and out in a seemingly effortless ebb and flow. |
069 March - April - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |
Creating a good template for financial planning is an investment on the co-op's part -- a darned good one.Computer spreadsheets make the task of financial |
067 November - December - 1996 | January 9, 2004 |
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The ability to raise capital -- to collect a little bit from a lot of people and build something greater than anybody's bit could have built alone -- is one of the great strengths o |
076 May - June - 1998 | January 9, 2004 |
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This month we study a case example of how the ratios presented in Cooperative Grocer can be used to analyze a co-op's financial position and direction. |
074 January - February - 1998 | May 10, 2011 |
By Scott Beers and Margaret LundOne of the absolutely vital committees of any co-op board is the finance committee. |
075 March - April - 1998 | January 9, 2004 |
Like the 2,000 pound gorilla at a small party, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, risk is always present, just standing there at the pretzel bowl waiting for you to tur |
068 January - February - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |