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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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Consistency is Key: Season 2, Episode 46 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 2, episode 46 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus at Include Software and Brett Lemcke with RM Landscape talk with Doug McDuff, president and co-owner of Landscape America. McDuff has a bachelor’s degree in urban forestry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate’s degree in landscape […]

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On the Same Page: Why Open-Book Management Helps

Imagine you’re the quarterback for a football team, but for some reason, you’re the only one on your team who knows what the points are on the scoreboard. Some of your teammates are convinced they’re up against an unsurmountable lead and have given up while others think they are comfortably ahead and as a result […]

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Business Smarts: Operating with Open-Book Management

Open-book management (OBM) is the philosophy that your company will perform better if you share the relevant finances of the company as a whole. By sharing this information with all your employees you can engage them more and build a loyal, informed team. ā€œIt’s a great way to make sure all your colleagues are committed […]

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