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A Watchkeeper or a Beekeeper?

A Watchkeeper or a Beekeeper? In “A Watchmaker or a Beekeeper,” guest blogger Bruce Baker walks you through the main personality types in leadership roles, and how they can impact your business. Low morale, low profits, lack of employee engagement, high turnover and rampant gossip can be attributed to a company being led by either […]

Making Our Teams and Ourselves More Successful

Making Our Teams and Ourselves More Successful This week, guest writer Sonya Law walks us through the people skills we need as we work towards making our teams, and ourselves, more successful. We achieve more as a team when we operate from a place of openness rather than fear – when we chose to thrive […]

Your Company Legacy and the Digital Dealership

Your Company Legacy and the Digital Dealership Tonight, guest blogger Mets Kramer continues to educate us on all the digital aspects of our business with a look at your company legacy and how it fits in with the Digital Dealership. “In the past, the model for an organized business was a phone and a Rolodex (younger […]

Job Shock: Part Six – The First Half

Job Shock: Part Six – The First Half Job Shock: Part Six – The First Half Edward E. Gordon, the founder and president of Imperial Consulting Corporation in Chicago, has consulted with leaders in business, education, government, and non-profits for over 50 years. As a writer, researcher, speaker, and consultant he has helped shape policy and […]

Potential Employees

How Do Potential Employees Find Careers in Today’s World? Through the past month or so Ed Gordon has been exposing his Job Shock series. A very sobering critique of the labor market and the potential employees out there today. Most of the dealers that I talk with these days are extremely concerned with their inability […]

The Digital Dealership: Comparing Equipment Presentation

The Digital Dealership: Comparing Equipment Presentation Tonight, guest blogger Mets Kramer continues to educate us on all the digital aspects of our business with The Digital Dealership: Comparing Equipment Presentation. One of the Statements I have made repeatedly in this series is: “The average buyer does 85% of their research digitally prior to contacting the dealer” […]