Need to Improve Sales Accountability? Ask the Redwoods
Earlier this year I took my family with me on a two-week business trip to southern Oregon and northern California. We have always wanted to visit this part of the country and jumped at the opportunity. As part of the trip, we went up the Oregon coast. Fortunately, that led us right through the California redwoods and some of the tallest trees on earth. One of the trees we saw was nearly 15 feet in diameter and likely over 300 feet tall. The largest tree in the world is a redwood named Hyperion that is 380 feet tall. To put that in perspective, it is 75 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty. These incredibly tall trees have a problem, how do they get water and nutrients from the roots all the way to the top of the tree? Like all plants, redwood trees source their water from root...