MAB Q&A

On the stockyard thing, I don't think they are going to rid themselves of the tourist part of it. Just the pens and part of the mule barn. Something to that effect. Basically the things that originally made the stockyards the stockyards. Less cattle industry, more tourist attractions. And yeah, we are a different breed. "Cliquish" I think would be a good term. Specially in the small towns. A lot of rivalry, friendly and otherwise, from one to the other. Growing up if I went cruising over to another town, it wasn't long before I had a confrontation with guys from there because I was in "their" town dating women they thought should be "reserved" for them. For the most part, I love it here. But when I traveled a lot around the world, I also learned a different way of thinking about stuff. So there are some things some Texans are stubborn about that I'm not. And as a former manager, I'm all about teamwork. Teamwork is essential to any business or person in management's success. That's just a fact. If you don't work well with others, you will not succeed. And that applies to a lot of things in life as well. But yeah, we have a tendency to march to our own drum.