David Kohl’s Business IQ: Management factors

In my editor’s note for the September 2020 Canola Digest, I mention David Kohl’s Business IQ test. The professor emeritus from the Agriculture and Applied Economics Department at Virginia Tech is a fairly regular speaker in Canada. He spoke this summer during the virtual Ag In Motion event called Discovery Plus. As part of his presentation, he showed the following slide with his 15 “critical questions for crucial conversations”. In my column, I had space to mention only three of the questions. Here’s the whole list…