Strategies Simplified LLC

In 1945, my grandfather, a first generation Norwegian immigrant, needed to fix a carburetor on his 1940 Ford motorcar. He did not have the money to pay a mechanic to fix the carburetor, so my grandfather, being the savvy entrepreneur that he was, offered a simple solution stating, “I cannot pay you to fix this for me, but if you teach me how to fix it, I’ll work off the payment in your shop.” This seemingly simple story shaped the way that I think of business. That simple act of the mechanic teaching my grandfather a simple mechanical skill, led to a lifetime of being able to be self sustainable by solving and fixing problems on the farm. I do not want to have mindless clients that blindly pay me for services, I want to help build creative and adaptive problem solvers so they can better un