A discussion about business ethics, character traits, integrity, and values

The late Ormal Creach, a businessman from up the road at Macks Creek, heard Bob Priddy’s radio series, Across Our Wide Missouri, where Priddy encouraged listeners, even the most common among us, to record our life stories. Ormal took him up on that advice, and he let me write his remarkable story.

Books, especially biography and autobiography, are a great way to study successful people. There are thousands of terrific true stories that are crammed with ideas you can apply to what you do. Read all you can. Buy them in print or on CD. Borrow them from libraries. Make the best of those books a part of what you are.

“Biography offers lessons to future generations,” says Priddy. “There is inspiration to be gained from knowing of the good someone has done. There is encouragement to be gained from knowing of hard times survived. There is understanding to be achieved by knowing of the ways an era shaped a person and that person shaped (in a major or minor way) that era.”

Here is an audio file from Across Our Wide Missouri.

The cover painting of Ormal's childhood home is by Dennis Yates.

Other artwork is by Ormal's friend Shelly Reeves Smith, who is as pretty and talented as ever.