Back in the booming economy’s hay day, people used to ask me how that company grew so big. My response would be they either had great salespeople or market conditions fueled the company’s growth through opportunity- Meaning work was flowing inbound with little outbound sales effort. Many of these companies expanded rapidly as work was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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