Windsor Business August 2024

5 HE SAID/SHE SAID: The news and views of area executives on pertinent business issues of the day.

12 CORPORATISM: Jim Blasingame says after 10,000 years, the nature of fear and greed as motivators is changing.

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An area metal recycler was sold to multinational corporation, AIM Recycling. From left: Steve Trupp, Operations Manager; Mike Moir, Regional Manager Southwestern Ontario; and Scott Kelvin, Site Manager at the plant in Wallaceburg. By Ron Stang

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AT A GLANCE A look at persistent market fallacies in the agricultural sector in Canada.

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PRIME HOME A look at recent residential property sales in Windsor and Essex County.

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CROSSWORD Take a coffee break from work and challenge yourself with our crossword.

10 BUILDING PERMITS A compilation of construction activity in the Windsor and area market.

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ESSEX ECONOMICS A series of guest columns by business executives on various trends in the region.

11 START UPS Newly incorporated firms launched in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent.

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PRIME PROPERTY A look at recent commercial property transfers in the city of Windsor.

11 WORLD OF WORK: A career advice column by two workplace consultants and career coaches.

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ne of Canada’s top metal recyclers has purchased DS Commercial Inc. and its Wallaceburg Stealth Metal Recycling, although local management remains in place.

Former owner Scott Kelvin called the transfer “just a business decision.” The plant, which recycles ferrous and non-ferrous metals, has been run by Scott and his wife Charlene Kelvin, who will be staying on.

That’s the way Montreal-based American Iron & Metal (AIM) prefers it, with owners maintaining their firms’ local identities, despite being owned by a multinational with operations in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. In fact, the company has two Windsor recycling locations on the city’s east and west sides.

The Wallaceburg plant has been rebranded AIM Recycling Wallaceburg.

“That’s the best part about these partnerships,” said Corey Cooper, AIM’s Continued on page 4

AT A GLANCE A LOOK AT PERSISTENT MARKET FALLACIES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN CANADA.

JUST THE FACTS:

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• A recent white paper on the world’s agricultural industry has found Canadian farming productivity will be positively impacted by global warming.

• Global warming is expected to result in longer summers, allowing farmers to plant crops earlier and harvest them later. It also offers opportunities to introduce new crops previously unsuited to the region, such as cotton and soybeans.

• Warmer temperatures can promote crop growth rates, enhance seed germination, and increase photosynthesis, ultimately leading to higher crop yields.

• The projected increase in rainfall due to climate change could lead to higher yields and more consistent output in Canadian agriculture.

• Despite being recognized as highly efficient in their use of nitrogen/ammonia-based fertilizer, Canadian farmers are now facing potential reductions in nitrogen-based fertilizer use mandated by the federal government.

• Canadian farmers are low absolute users of fertilizer per hectare of cropland, which is a testament to their sustainable farming practices. However, reductions in nitrogen-based fertilizer use could lead to challenges for farmers in maintaining their crop yields and productivity levels.

Projected change in agricultural productivity in 2080 due to climate change:

Projected changes in agricultural productivity in 2080 due to climate change, and incorporating the effects of carbon fertilization.

Source: Omnigence, 2023.

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CARTOON BY PAUL MARCH

Business lessons learned at home

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A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY VISITS A Q-TIP FACTORY.

BUSINESS BOOST “Ranking employees as a measure of their productivity is not common.

Where ranking is used, it’s almost always misused and therefore it should be eliminated.

“That’s a bit counterintuitive. You’d think it would be possible to look at 10 employees doing the same job and determine which is the best, then next best and so on, all the way down to the worst. But you can’t do this meaningfully and you can’t eliminate ranking perils.

“Is ranking ever appropriate? Yes. Where employees are expected to create one or two very specific results and they can be measure accurately, ratings can be used. A real estate agent could be evaluated in terms of a very few criteria – number of sales, dollar value, number of new clients secured.

“If that’s all you care about, then ranking can work. But what about the agent who interferes with other agents through cutthroat practices? Maybe you expect the agent to do more than sell, to contribute in other ways to the success of the company. Ranking then becomes a problem.”

Robert Bacal in How to Manage Performance: 24 Lessons for Improving Performance, McGraw-Hill.

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VOLUME 28, ISSUE 4 • AUGUST 2024 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Nadia H. Shousher

ART DIRECTOR

David Cowx

CONTRIBUTORS

Jim Blasingame, Dale Dauten, Paul March, Devan Mighton, J.T. O’Donnell, Ron Stang, Joe Symchyshyn

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was glancing back at earlier editions of this magazine, and found one from 2006 in which I gave kudos to my beloved papa, the consummate business professional.

He passed away a few weeks ago, and of course I am devastated. But beyond all the love, support and encouragement he provided throughout my life, he also taught me some great life lessons I’ve used in business.

My dad was the personification of entrepreneurialism. Like most immigrants, he arrived in Canada very young and with only a few dollars in his pocket. But he had lots of ambition, often working two and three jobs to support a large extended family. With amazing prescience, my dad bought farmland all around the city of London, somehow understanding how the city would grow over time and in which direction.

He bought and sold rental housing, commercial properties and land, classic cars and small companies.

He was a dedicated community activist and a long-time volunteer in various charities. He invested in himself and in his new home, believing it important to give back to the society that embraced him.

Most of all, my dad sold his ideas and enthusiasm to the public, and was thus able to provide us a great life from his combination of honesty, foresight and plain old hard labor. What a legacy.

It touched me to see that, decades after selling his last car in a GM dealership, old customers would hunt him down at home, asking for help in replacing their vehicles. To paraphrase one caller, she wouldn’t trust any other salesman with the job. What a testament to my papa’s well-earned reputation.

Some of his advice in particular stuck with me through the years, such as: • Start off the way you want to finish. Present yourself as a self-confident, respectable person and you will eventually be one.

• If you can’t keep a promise, don’t make one. Nothing is more important than your word.

• It takes forever to build a good reputation and only a minute to lose it, so protect yours throughout your life.

• Don’t procrastinate, even with small jobs or projects. Delaying action makes it harder to get started, so be decisive and get to it.

• Apply yourself 100 percent to everything you do. Even if it’s as a volunteer, work thoroughly and honestly in all things.

• Do what you say you will do, and mean what you say when you say it.

My papa has been the absolute largest influence on my life, and I am grateful I had his example to learn from. Rest in peace, papa.

Nadia H. Shousher is Editor-in-Chief of Windsor Business, a division of The Page Publishing Corp.

ESSEX ECONOMICS JULIE BEE

Overcome small business burnout

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ately you’re just not “feeling it” as you lead your small business. You’re apathetic and operating on autopilot. You aren’t even sure why work isn’t working anymore. Things may be going great, so what gives?

It is common for entrepreneurs to hit a wall and feel they’re “over” the small business they once launched and nurtured. It’s likely something about your small business really isn’t working for you.

When you’re first started, you may have done things a certain way because you lacked time, manpower, resources or knowledge. As time goes by, the ways you adopted early on became entrenched. But what if one of those things is draining your energy, causing you unnecessary stress or keeping you from doing what fulfills you?

Feeling burdened is often a sign you’re headed toward burnout, which can cause major damage to your business, relationships and health. Every entrepreneur has red flags that signal when something isn’t working, and it probably won’t be difficult to identify some of yours.

For instance, you’re having trouble sleeping (or you’re sleeping too much), your interactions with others have become more contentious, you’re finding it difficult to focus and/or come up with new ideas, or you’re constantly putting out fires at work, instead of handling the important tasks that will grow your business.

Figure out what’s causing the problem. Identify elements of your work that put you at risk for burnout.

For instance, maybe rapid change makes you feel drained, or you thrive more when working independently than when leading a team.

Carve out space to make changes. Put energy and thought into addressing whatever isn’t working. Before you can make productive changes and grow your business, you need to make space to address your pain points as a business owner, and prioritize your personal well-being.

Ask for help if you need it. If your best efforts have created a work environment that isn’t working for you, you may need some outside assistance to improve things. Asking for help is hard for high performers, but there’s no shame in it. The support and advice of a mentor, therapist, business partner or loved one can make a big difference.

Business ownership isn’t one-size-fits-all. There isn’t a single ‘right’ way to do it. Before you assume your work will never work for you again, and throw in the towel, take the time to look inward. Chances are your relationship with your small business isn’t irreparably broken; it just needs some targeted tweaks.

Julie Bee is the author of Burned: How Business Owners Can Overcome Burnout and Fuel Success.

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BY RON STANG

BY RON STANG

International metal Oldcastle mold firm bought by local recycler buys area plant construction company for $2.8 million

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Continued from page 1 director of marketing. “As a family-owned organization, we see the value in family-owned, familyoperated firms. In a lot of the yards we’ve purchased, the same owners are still running the yard, operating the facility and managing the staff.”

AIM was started in 1936 by Peter Black, and is a two-generation, private family-owned firm currently run by sons Herbert and Ron Black.

AIM has 135 sites, more than 700 trucks and 2,500 rail cars. The Wallaceburg plant, serving Kent and Lambton Counties and parts of Middlesex and Essex counties, has a lugger truck and a roll off truck for carrying, and tilting hoppers and bins. The plant, at 100 Mason Street, has been open since 2014 and has eight employees.

The $1.3 million-sale of the 21acre site took place last spring.

The Wallaceburg plant serves the municipality as well as individual accounts, and “local peddlers that come in over our scale,” Scott Kelvin said. “We purchase the metals based on the weight from our commercial and industrial accounts.” The materials, in turn, are sent to AIM’s sorting facility in Hamilton.

“They’ve got a shredder there, so they shred all the tin and shreddable materials,” he said. “All the non-ferrous materials (metals with no iron, such as aluminum or cop-

modern factory in Oldcastle has been sold by Dezyntech Inc. to locallyowned Sernacon Holdings Inc., affiliated with well-known Windsor company Wincon Construction.

The approximately two-acre site on O’Neil Drive, including the two-storey blue and grey building, transferred hands for $2.8 million.

No representative from either

company responded to requests for comment.

Wincon, founded in 1966, has wide experience in industrial, institutional and commercial construction. It has built such well-known local sites as Heritage Park Alliance Church in LaSalle, Tecumseh Vista Academy, a University of Windsor student residence, the Talbot Trail Public School, St. Clair

Beach Retirement Residence and an Applebee’s Restaurant.

Dezyntech was established in 2012 and serves the plastic injection mold industry, using state-ofthe-art high speed CNC machinery.

In 2018 it acquired Urgent EDM, focusing on rapid customer turnaround; the two firms are combined at the one site.

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BY RON STANG

Fast food plaza on west side sold

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per) are typically sent to Montreal.

And then all of the heavy steels are sent direct to mills” to be melted down for new products.

AIM’s services are wide ranging, from public recycling depots to industrial scrap management, demolition and site cleanup, and even international trade.

Said Cooper: “Our goals are to always develop our presence, and ensure metal recycling is publicly accessible across all the regions in which we operate. So, with Wallaceburg being added to the portfolio, it adds to that public accessibility and helps expand our WB footprint.”

he Harvey’s/Swiss Chalet Express property, a mainstay of Wyandotte Street West and the University district for decades, has been sold.

The buyer is Windsor-based I. El-Cheikh Mohamad, who would only confirm the sale to Windsor Business, adding his plan for the site is “a surprise.” Several attempts to reach the Harvey’s and Swiss Chalet’s parent company, RecipeUnlimited (formerly Cara Operations), were unsuccessful.

The $1.65-million sale closed in June by an Ontario numbered company to another numbered company associated with Mohamad. The property at the corner of Wyandotte and California Avenue measures less than a quarter-acre.

Greg Atkinson, manager of

development planning and a deputy planner for the City of Windsor, said “We don’t have any active development applications for that corner,” adding the zoning there is “pretty flexible. So, if someone is going to do something different, they don’t necessarily need any planning approvals. We call it a Main Street zoning; it permits a number of commercial uses and also dwelling units above on the second, third or fourth floors.”

Meanwhile, a few kilometers away on Huron Church Road, a new A&W helms an 8,000-squarefoot, five-unit reimagined space where a former Rexall stood. New Brunswick-based Plaza REIT purchased the property, demolished the store and sought new tenants.

But that property too was

recently sold to Ancaster ONbased Kazel Holding Inc. The principal, Luay Al-Kazely, could not be reached.

Plaza’s COO Jason Parravano said it was simply time to sell the site. “I think we’ve completed our value add-on to the property. It was time for us to sell and recycle that capital into newer projects,” he said.

Plaza is based in New Brunswick, but has offices in Toronto and Montreal. It has properties in more than one hundred communities in eastern Canada.

Plaza’s other Windsor properties are the Rexall on Ouellette Avenue, a Shoppers Drug Mart on Seminole Street and Value Buds (Nova Cannabis) on Wyandotte Street West.

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Address: Road 2 E., Conc. 2, Kingsville Selling Price: $10,036,720 Vendor: 2623991 Ontario Ltd., 1382296 Ontario Ltd. Purchaser: Boem Berry Farms Inc.

Address: 296 Richmond St., Chatham Selling Price: $6 million Vendor: Bob Campbell Motors Ltd. Purchaser: CT Land Holdings Ltd.

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Address: 200 Heritage Rd., 389 County Rd. 20, Kingsville Selling Price: $7,044,883 Vendor: Named Individuals Purchaser: Truax Development Corp.

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PRIME HOME SALES THE FOLLOWING REPRESENT SOME RECENT RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY SALES IN THE ESSEX COUNTY/CHATHAM-KENT AREA:

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Where: 1437 Redwood Ave. Property Size: 47’ x 84’ # Bedrooms: 2 + 1 # Bathrooms: 2 Taxes: $2,268 Listed For: $389,900 Sold For: $410,000

Where: 2519 Dominion Property Size: 60’ x 106’ # Bedrooms: 3 + 1 # Bathrooms: 2 Taxes: $3,336 Listed For: $499,000 Sold For: $508,000

Where: 1835 Dacotah Dr. Property Size: 37’ x 92’ # Bedrooms: 3 # Bathrooms: 1 Taxes: $2,579 Listed For: $299,900 Sold For: $360,000

Where: 478 St. John St. Property Size: 51’ x irr. # Bedrooms: 4 # Bathrooms: 2 Taxes: $3,259 Listed For: $439,900 Sold For: $460,000

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Where: 3896 Vaughan St. Property Size: 44’ x 110’ # Bedrooms: 3 # Bathrooms: 1 Taxes: $2,600 Listed For: $449,900 Sold For: $470,000

Where: 3660 Roxborough Property Size: 60’ x 105’ # Bedrooms: 4 + 2 # Bathrooms: 2 Taxes: $3,485 Listed For: $499,999 Sold For: $507,000

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Where: 1643 Seneca St. Property Size: 30’ x 35’ # Bedrooms: 2 # Bathrooms: 1 Taxes: $1,687 Listed For: $275,500 Sold For: $290,000

Where: 885 Arthur Rd. Property Size: 30’ x 100’ # Bedrooms: 3 # Bathrooms: 1 Taxes: $1,357 Listed For: $279,999 Sold For: $320,000

PRIME HOME SALES THE FOLLOWING REPRESENT SOME RECENT RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY SALES IN THE ESSEX COUNTY/CHATHAM-KENT AREA:

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Where: 1545 Bouffard Rd., LaSalle Property Size: 150’ x 200’ # Bedrooms: 3 # Bathrooms: 1 Taxes: $4,000 Listed For: $599,900 Sold For: $480,000

Where: 206 Clubview Dr., LaSalle Property Size: 100’ x 241’ # Bedrooms: 3 + 1 # Bathrooms: 3 Taxes: $6,450 Listed For: $899,900 Sold For: $1.1 million

Where: 579 Stallion Ave., Lakeshore Property Size: 63’ x irr. # Bedrooms: 3 + 3 # Bathrooms: 3 Taxes: $5,800 Listed For: $999,900 Sold For: $952,500

Where: 22 Taylor Trail, Chatham Property Size: 31’ x 125’ # Bedrooms: 2 + 2 # Bathrooms: 2 Taxes: $3,700 Listed For: $459,900 Sold For: $430,000

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Where: 171 Woodlawn Cr., Kingsville Property Size: 50’ x 120’ # Bedrooms: 3 + 1 # Bathrooms: 2 Taxes: $2,500 Listed For: $519,000 Sold For: $500,000

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MUNICIPALITY OF CHATHAM-KENT RESIDENTIAL:

• County Fair Mall (Wallaceburg) Holdings Inc. is building a new restaurant on McNaughton Ave. Value of construction: $1.1 million.

• Tatro Properties Ltd. is doing interior renovations to recreational facility on Richmond St. Value of construction: $250,000.

• Individuals are building a new agricultural building on Creek Line. Value of construction: $1.4 million.

• Individuals are erecting an agricultural building on Talbot Trail.

Value of construction: $300,000.

• 12131013 Canada Inc. is building warehouse on Richmond St. Value of construction: $400,000.

• Lambton Kent District School is doing renovations to an elementary school on McNaughton Ave. Value of construction: $550,000.

• Individuals are erecting two agricultural buildings on Talbot Trail. Values of construction: $700,000 each.

• Individuals are building a singlefamily residence on Cedar Hedge Line. Value of construction: $500,000.

• Multi-Construction (Chatham) Inc. is doing an addition to a single-family home on Creek Rd. Value of construction: $75,000.

• Unique Homes (2003) Inc. is building a single-family residence on Rosewood Cr. Value of construction: $320,000.

• Unique Homes (2003) Inc. is building a condo unit on Rosewood Cr. Value of construction: $320,000.

• Individuals are building a singlefamily home on Klondyke Rd. Value of construction: $300,000.

• Affinity Elite Homes is building two units of a semi-detached on Brighton Place. Values of construction: $300,000 each.

• First Family Homes is building a single-family home on Lagoon Rd. Value of construction: $550,000.

• Maple City Homes Ltd. is build-

ing a single-family residence on Ironwood Trail. Value of construction: $500,000.

CKSL Development Ltd. is erecting five single-family residences on Indian Creek Rd. W. Values of construction: $500,000 each.

Gary Field Homes Inc. is building a single-family residence on Lindsay Rd. Value of construction: $1.64 million.

Individuals are building a singlefamily home on Erie St. N. Value of construction: $600,000.

Affinity Elite Homes is building two units of a semi-detached on Brighton Place. Values of construction: $400,000 each.

Individuals are building an addition to a single-family residence on Kenesserie Rd. Value of construction: $280,000.

Creative Touch Ltd. is building a new single-family home on Paulus Rd. Value of construction: $500,000.

Multi Construction is building a new single-family residence on Cabot Trail. Value of construction: $350,000.

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• Rumble Homes Ltd. is building a single-family home on Valencia Dr. Value of construction: $2 million.

• Affinity Elite Homes is building a single-family home on Bloomington Way. Value of construction: $345,000.

• Liovas Homes is building two single-family homes on Indian Creek Rd. W. Values of construction: $500,000 each.

TOWN OF KINGSVILLE COMMERCIAL: • D. C. McCloskey Engineering Ltd. is erecting Part III of an industrial building on Seacliff Dr. Value of construction: $500,000.

• Nor-Built Construction is building Part III of a commercial building on Road 8 W. Value of construction: $1.6 million.

• Nello Construction Inc. is building Part III of an industrial building on Setterington Dr. Value of construction: $750,000.

TOWN OF KINGSVILLE RESIDENTIAL: • Individuals are building a new single-family residence on Erie Ave. Value of construction: $412,450.

• Individuals are adding an accessory structure to a residence on Graham Sideroad. Value of construction: $150,000.

TOWN OF ESSEX RESIDENTIAL: • Individuals are building a singlefamily residence on Giardini Side Rd. Value of construction: $1.05 million.

• Bart DiGiovanni Construction is building a single-family home on Bear St. Value of construction: $700,000.

• Individuals are building a singlefamily home on 4th Conc. Rd. Value of construction: $1.14 million.

• Essex Non Profit Homes Inc. is building three, three-dwelling units on Michael Dr. Values of construction: $800,000 each. WB

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ear and greed, it has been said, are the two primal emotions that have propelled human civilization. Of course, both have their dark side, too.

Greed is positive and productive when channeled toward personal and professional improvement, but it turns ugly in pursuit of a single-minded or selfish outcome. When fear delivers important information it’s not only useful, it’s essential. But it can also

morph into paranoia, or cause inaction.

At this very moment, the nature of fear and greed is changing. For 10,000 years, the only form humans have known is analog.

This means any leveraging of them was likely mechanical, moving no faster than the speed of sound.

But today, we’re fully across the digital Rubicon and there’s no turning back. In this new universe, fear and greed are being leveraged

with a force that moves at the speed of light. And the new rules of this paradigm shift – transitioning from analog RPM to digital GHz – is putting pressure on our ability to keep up, armed only with ancient analog ethics.

But fear and greed are not our only productive motivators. In fact, six others not only contributed to human development alongside fear and greed all those years, but have also had a more consistently positive impact on the

marketplace.

Security: Being warm-blooded, humans come with a high-maintenance physiology that requires regular nourishment and protection from the elements. When a customer does business with a friend of mine, instead of saying, “Thanks for the business,” he says: “Thanks for the food and shelter.”

Family: Human children take a long time to fledge the nest. Our

familial instincts are very strong, motivating us to do quite a bit of aggressive hunting and gathering.

And the natural byproduct of this is the order and productivity of communities and markets.

Self-respect: As social beings, we’ve created and lived in communities. But the price of community is paid with the currency of responsibility. Our ability to think in the abstract produces the concept of self. And when self-awareness is forged with responsibility, it produces the very powerful emotional alloy of self-respect.

Ambition: The harness-mate of self-respect, ambition motivates us beyond mere survival, and is the more elegant cousin of greed.

When ambition pulls against the load, side-by-side with selfrespect, a positive force is born: the quest for personal excellence.

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Creativity: There are many things that separate humans from other life forms, but perhaps the most interesting is our tendency to tinker. Creativity, our primordial passion to make something that doesn’t exist, wells up from a visceral spring. It’s the free-spirit emotion that always asks “why,” with an impertinent “why not” preloaded and ready to fire. True creativity is its own reward.

WB Creativity is to the marketplace what water is to life: you can have one without the other, but not for very long.

Curiosity: Curiosity may be our most powerful and elemental emotion. It’s the spark that ignites understanding, learning, empathy and growth. Curiosity is part of the nucleus of the other five.

The good news is, unlike fear and greed, these six motivators are likely to be less affected by digital pressures, and should remain, more or less, as we’ve always known them.

Write this on a rock: Nowhere in the marketplace are these six motivators more evident and beautiful than on Main Street in a small business.

WB Jim Blasingame is the author of The 3rd Ingredient, the Journey of Analog Ethics into the World of Digital Fear and Greed. Visit jimblasingame.com.