Socrates Says

Why do your customers buy from you? What makes your customers loyal to you? Without the answers to these two simple questions you really don’t know how to either grow your business or protect it. What is it that makes your customers buy from you? Everything you sell in your parts business is available from […]

What happened to the days of mentoring new employees? Have you mentored anyone? How about career development? How about being a model for your team? Somehow we seem to have strayed from what works. Management is a privilege. It is also a burden. As a manager you have the opportunity to make a difference in […]

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we should dance. Anonymous   A goal without a plan is just a wish. Anonymous   It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle

There has been a conflict within several suppliers regarding stock orders. Should we offer daily stock orders? Should we allow stock orders weekly or some other frequency? Let’s examine the basics. The lead time, the replenishment of an inventory, contains in it the time that exists between stock order cycles.  If the stock orders happen […]

So we won’t concentrate on what we do or how we do it. We will concentrate on WHY. The starting point here to me is that we will focus on the fact that we are in business to reduce the owning and operating costs of capital equipment for the equipment owner and operator.  We are […]

The best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today. The Monk who sold his Ferrari   When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley, Jr.   He who dies with the most toys…… still dies. Keith Luscher.