MMRadio David C Barnett - Monday Morning Memo

David C. Barnett is a small business valuation expert on the hot seat. Without advance notice, our roving reporter Rotbart invited Ken Lain to join him in questioning Mr. Barnett.

Ken Lain is the owner of a successful garden center in Prescott, Arizona, and he is on the hunt to acquire more garden centers.

Ken Lain’s questions weren’t theoretical. They came directly from situations that he is confronting as a prospective buyer of businesses.

This is an absolutely fascinating episode.

“Rugged individualism is the essence of America.

It is also the reason that we, as a people, are isolated and lonely.

Our focus on personal, individual success is the reason we are disconnected from one another.

Terrence Real put it this way, ‘Individualism is not a natural fact; it has a history. In American Colonial days, society was communalism on a small scale. It was about farms and small towns and small villages. When you lived face to face with your neighbor, it was a palpable reality that the good of all was the good for each of us.’

‘Civic virtue was the force that went beyond individual gratification. It was part of being a civilized person that you had a sense of civic virtue. With the Industrial Revolution, and the myth of the self-made man, all of that went by the wayside and it was each man for himself.'”

- Roy H. Williams

David C. Barnett is a small business valuation expert on the hot seat. Without advance notice, our roving reporter Rotbart invited Ken Lain to join him in questioning Mr. Barnett.

Ken Lain is the owner of a successful garden center in Prescott, Arizona, and he is on the hunt to acquire more garden centers.

Ken Lain’s questions weren’t theoretical. They came directly from situations that he is confronting as a prospective buyer of businesses.

This is an absolutely fascinating episode.

More Information

Contact Us

Address