Thinking Your Way Through Strategy: Helping The Landscape Company Grow

‘Strategy’; Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as “a pattern in a stream of decisions” to contrast with a view of strategy as planning,[3] while Max McKeown (2011) argues that “strategy is about shaping the future” and is the human attempt to get to “desirable ends with available I learned a long time ago […]

The Monday Mindset For Landscape Company Owners

So it’s Monday and perhaps time to wrestle with remaining thoughts from Friday. Today is a new day, new thoughts and even some new challenges. Let’s start with thinking about the ‘Five Habits of Mind for Landscape Company Leadership’. It is my belief that if you rigorously, and courageously address each one of these mindset […]

It Is My Opinion… The Post-Merger Integration Of The Brickman Group Ltd. LLC & ValleyCrest, LLC

As Released July 1, 2014 Brickman Group Press Release “The Merger completion on June 30 of Maryland based Brickman Group, Ltd. LLC and California based ValleyCrest Companies, LLC creates the industry’s largest-leading landscape Services Company”. For months, we have all been waiting for this day to arrive; the finalization of the BIGGEST merger deals in […]

8 Talent Acquisition Strategies For The Small Company

I hear so often how difficult it is to find talent for a small landscape company. But, I often tell my clients, it’s not that hard if you have your magnet out to attract. For example, I received a question from a potential client last week…His question was… How do I turn my recruiting challenges […]

Why I’m The Best Landscaper!

So we are sitting across the table from the property manager as he/she asked the typical questions…” Will my grass be mowed weekly?”, answer: “why of course,” “will my beds be weed-free?”, answer: “of course they will be, we weed continually,” “will my grass be green?”, “why, of course, we use only the best fertilizer,” […]