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How Private Equity Impacts the Green Industry's EMPLOYEES

Every conversation about private equity in this industry is aimed at one person. The owner. When to sell. What price? Which partner? What's next for you?

What about the people nobody is advising? A lot of them are already halfway out the door.

We've recruited a lot of people. We talk to a lot of owners and business leaders. And we also talk to a lot of team members.

And lately we're hearing something we have to tell you about.

Private Equity is Buying the Landscaping Industry!

Your Job Description is a List of Scars

Pull up the job description you're using right now. Read it line by line. Not for what it says — for where each line...

How Good Employees Learn to Be Average

You can work your ass off finding a really good employee, hire somebody with all kinds of potential, and then spend the...

Why One Employee Quitting Often Causes the Next One to Leave

A guy quits in May. Another guy quits in July. You're looking at two resignations. Two conversations. Two sets of...

You Don't Have a Hiring Problem. You Have a Winter Problem.

You don't have a hiring problem. You have a winter problem. Every year, you lose good people. And every year, you file...

Pay Compression: The Raise Your Best People Never Got

You already know the labor market in this industry is brutal. Everybody's hiring. Nobody can find enough good people....

Private Equity is Buying the Landscaping Industry

Every conversation about private equity in this industry is aimed at one person. The owner. When to sell. What price?...

If Your Company Had to Last 250 Years, What Would Break?

This week, America turns 250. Something lasted two and a half centuries, and it wasn't by accident or luck. It survived...

The Manager Engagement Cliff: Why Your Leaders Are Checking Out

For years, there was a quiet perk to being a manager. Not the title. Not the pay bump. The engagement. People who...

Pour Gas on the Fire: Building Teams Around Strengths

We spend massive amounts of time writing job descriptions for mythical creatures that simply do not exist. Then, when...

The High Cost of Avoiding Difficult Conversations

Silence isn't being nice. Avoiding that difficult conversation with your underperforming employee doesn't avoid...
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