<\/a>In the Arava desert, which gets only 30mm of rainfall a year, farming communities produce 60% of Israel’s fresh vegetable exports, 10% of cut flower exports, and there are 18 ornamental fish farms in the Arava desert. Is it the environment?<\/span><\/p>\nI wonder how much of a “farming” mindset we have in Singapore versus a “hunting” mindset where business relationships, and all business dealings eventually, if you care to extrapolate, will either thrive or shrivel in ruinous total war. Our famous orchid exports have actually halved over the last ten years, and generally Singaporeans have no mindset for farming. Does that tell us something? My conclusion is that having either a “farming” or a “hunting” mindset has little to do with the environment, unless you happen to be an Inuit who is really acquainted with this mythical figure called Santa Claus.<\/span><\/p>\nSo, what’s YOUR mindset? And if you’re one of those who have a “farming” mindset, lives on 10,000 acres of land and has a managed forest where you hunt deer on the odd occasion, give me a buzz, I’d like to get to know you a little better!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has often been said that business relationships ought to be nurtured based on a “farming” approach instead of a “hunting” approach. I was wondering how much our environment influences our decisions in that regard? Would an environment that actively encourages agriculture tend to generate more of a “farming” mindset? What if the environment is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,8,16,17],"tags":[42,88,113,144,191],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-gF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9977,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}