Shane McDaniel

The Country Executive - A leadership blog for those with rural roots

Background Information I participated in my first interview as the hiring manager around 2009. I wasn't the m…

Hello again everyone! It's been a whirlwind of late for me trying to keep up with all my responsibilities in …

Hard to believe a year has passed since I purchased the countryexec.com domain and published my first post. M…

As I sit here waiting for the greatest winter storm to hit Texas in thirty-five years to pass, I've had plent…

I consider myself a bit of a renaissance man having grown up in a world I would term to be a closed environme…

Here's something not everyone can lay claim too. I conceived a phrase, a way of being in a professional conte…

A couple of weeks back my wife and two of our four dogs took off to the beautiful Texas coast town of Port Ar…

After months of seemingly never-ending work projects interwoven with the Covid-19 pandemic, I welcomed the ex…

Occasionally when speaking to the journey that has led me to where I am today, I am asked how my career came …

For the first thirty years of my life I was a world class time waster, seemingly incapable of living beyond t…

Implementing Enterprise Technology in Rural America By Shane McDaniel, Director - IT, City of Seguin - When t…