SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | Let’s get centered
Golf offers so many metaphors for the game of business. One is to get centered on the golf ball when taking your stance, then make adjustments depending on your intent…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | Are you first or last in line?
In my formative military years, I learned a valuable and lifelong lesson: Leaders eat last. I was a Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet in college, and our summer camps integrated active-duty troops into…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | Get connected
I went out to dinner with a friend last night to a sushi bar. My friend loves sushi, and it was our second time there. Like many restaurant owners, the Itamae, or…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | Muster the strength
I was digging deep, reaching into my physical core, and praying! I was mustering the strength to finish the last 6 miles. I was at the beginning of Hains Point, the 4-mile oval, bracketed by the Potomac River, which…
Paul Butler | Seek help — or offer assistance — with work stresses
My wife and I have set ourselves a goal to run a half-marathon in every state. Up until the onset of the pandemic we’d completed nine over the last three…
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Paul Butler | The principles of leadership
If I’ve learned anything about human behavior, it’s that our perceptions drive our behaviors, which dictate our results. Our perceptions are the window through which we see the world —…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | The cynic, skeptic and Pollyanna!
He sits at his computer hour after hour, trolling connections on various social media platforms, spewing righteous indignations at the skeptic and pollyannaish posts, offering fatalistic views rooted in ignorance,…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | The identity iceberg
One of my many significant assignments in the Army was as a commander of a basic training company. Post-Vietnam volunteers, fresh out of high school, looking for a purpose in…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | The value of a business coach
I wrote in a previous column in The Signal that I love the game of golf. My father is a golfer, and in my pre-teen years, he enrolled my brother…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Paul Raggio | It’s all in your perspective
We’re all in the same storm, but we’re not all in the same boat! I recently read this in a social media posting and thought, what a brilliant metaphor for…
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Paul Butler | Gratitude before goals
Thanksgiving was a day most of us as Americans pause to give thanks for what we have, just hours before we flocked to the stores to buy what we don’t…
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Paul Butler | Theft at work
A few weeks ago, I had my bicycle stolen from outside our office building. I was aghast and annoyed. I became all puffed-up with my own self-righteousness as I convinced…
Executive Chef Harout Hadjinian offers a variety of meal options at the Grove Restaurant and Bar at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Valencia (Signal file photo)
Finding a hotel that fits your travel needs
Finding the right hotel is paramount to any successful trip. Whether it’s for business or pleasure, where you fall asleep and wake up in the evening and morning can truly…
Jeffrey Prang was elected in 2014 as the 27th assessor of the County of Los Angeles. Photo from Los Angeles County
Property tax relief for small business owners
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A Miss SCV Scholarship Program participant folds an American flag during Operation Forget Me Not at Newhall Church of the Nazerene on Saturday. Samie Gebers/The Signal
Four Questions: Paul Butler
With professional experience that spans the globe, Paul Butler preaches the power of leadership and communication through his work at Valencia-based Newleaf Training and Development.
Retired CHP officer Erwin Holmes hugs Elyse Taylor, daughter of fallen CHP officer Roger Gore, following a ceremony to rededicate a memorial for the four officers who lost their lives in 1970's Newhall Incident at the California Highway Patrol's Newhall offices on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
SCVEDC takes the pulse on local business issues
SCV BUSINESS VOICES: Holly Schroeder, SCVEDC
Paul Butler, Newleaf Training and Development. Submitted photo
The return on diversity and inclusion
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Paul Butler, Newleaf Training and Development. Submitted photo
Why most training doesn’t work
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The advanced manufacturing operations at Stratasys Direct Manufacturing in Santa Clarita center around 3D printing technology. Photo: Stratasys Direct Manufacturing
California continues rise as ‘economic powerhouse’
California’s grades on the 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card don’t look overly impressive: There’s just a single “A,” lots of “Cs,” even a “D.” No, California won’t be this…
