Larry Ness was working at a bank in Mitchell, South Dakota when he saw a print ad looking for a president of a struggling bank in Yankton. He put his name in the hat and the rest is history, as they say. But that struggling bank (the oldest in Dakota Territory) had one location and $40 million in assets; today that bank has 19 locations and $1.7 billion in assets. A lot of that can be traced to the actions of Larry. We talk about how he did it and how to build successful communities.

Larry is, no doubt, one of my business idols and I was really excited to sit down and chat with him.