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Boosting Your Business: Fostering Transparency Through Open-Book Management

If you’re watching the Super Bowl, or any sporting event for that matter, and you don’t know what the score is, it can be hard to stay engaged. Similarly, it can be difficult for your team to feel like they have a stake in the business when they don’t know how your landscape company is […]

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The Case for Open-Book Management

If you are looking for a way to empower your employees to perform better, consider looking into implementing open-book management. ā€œIt helped us out tremendously in engaging the team, getting them to participate in the overall success of the business, because they understand enough about what their actions and behaviors every day do to affect […]

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Business Smarts: Implementing Expense Management Measures

Visibility into your lawn or landscape company’s expenses is vital to ensure bad actors are not abusing your operations. For instance, fuel cards are historically hard to track as different employees might be using different cards or sharing pins when they need to fill up at the pump. An employee could easily use this lack […]

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The Secrets to an Impactful and Resilient Workplace Culture

At NALP’s Leaders Forum event in January 2022, industry CEOs and experts shared their strategies to create impactful and resilient cultures. Panelists included Phil Allen, Ph.D., professor of landscape management, Brigham Young University; Mike Bogan, CEO, LandCare; Pam Dooley, owner, Plants Creative Landscape; Paul Fraynd, CEO, Sun Valley Landscaping; and Doug McDuff, president & co-owner, […]

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