This past December, I celebrated forty years in the green industry. This milestone has brought a culmination of memories to my mind. It has also brought forth many thoughts on what has worked – and not worked – during my career. For this article, I would like to share one of my company’s greatest successes, […]
Why Changing Business Norms Is Not EASY
Change doesn’t come easy! There are no shortcuts to circumvent frustration or the required endurance needed for sustainable success. One of the greatest challenges in business with regards to change is the people from within. Making the company a better place, one person, one team & one business unit at a time through communication, community, […]
High Impact Firms
Introduction – The End Game If you look hard at the business practices of the most successful companies, the elite 5% of all small businesses, you will find 4 general competencies. This is not a tale of just landscape companies, it is the story of all companies that started small and became billion dollar firms. […]
Why You Need Coaching
This is the first of a four-part series on coaching, business coaching to be exact. However, before discussing the results from having a business professional on call and working with you, I thought back to my experience in sports. Although not a big fan of tennis or golf, I am reminded of this while […]
High Impact Firms Part 2
Introduction – Marketing Spend In our last post we summarized HIF’s- High Impact Firms – let me backtrack and spend a little more time describing how we got here. One of the top entrepreneurial foundations (Kauffman) built on the research started in 1980’s by MIT. One of their researchers, David Birch, identified the characteristics of […]
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