In early 1982, I was looking for work. Having recently graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was…
Author: David Callis
David Callis
David Callis is a 1982 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, with a degree in business administration. He served the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association in various roles until his retirement in 2022.
On Oct. 15, I attended Caney Fork Electric Cooperative’s annual meeting. On the morning drive to McMinnville from Nashville, the…
My friend Josh Kramer is executive vice president and general manager of the North Dakota Electric Cooperative Association. I’m sharing…
In early May, I was in Washington, D.C., with a group of electric cooperative leaders to discuss the challenges facing…
The magazine in your hands traveled to you the same way it does most months. The process begins with…
We have serious problems in just about every business sector in our nation right now. In the past several months,…
In his book “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell writes about the “ten-thousand-hour rule.” The theory is that practice, repetition and role preparation…
Last month, more than 8,000 electric co-op leaders from across the country gathered in Nashville for the National Rural Electric…
Congress created the Rural Electric Administration in 1935. At that time, there was no certainty that it would be successful.…
Rather than use Webster’s definition of “resilience,” I’ll relate a phrase used by the late Rev. Robert H. Schuller. In…