Change is inevitable. With the rapid changes in technology and continued competition for natural and business resources, as a small business owner, you have to up your change strategy. It’s not a choice, its a prerequisite to success.…
Category: Business Management
Turn on Your “Green Light”: Take a Fresh Look at Your Business this Spring
With the warm spring breeze, everything feels new, fresh and filled with promise. Unfortunately, this feeling won’t last forever. Soon, the weather will get warmer and people will start complaining about the heat. Seasonal allergies will hit with a vengeance, and…
Back to Business Basics: The ABC’s of Keeping Your Cool as a Small Business Owner
It’s a new year and things are more hectic than ever. We are all juggling work and home. Live and news is coming at us at warped speeds. It’s time to find our center. My focus this here will be…
Look Out Into the Forest: Shaking the Money Tree
By Rose Epperson Long before my family began working in the tree care, my father, a top salesman for Eastman Kodak, got a chuckle as he left for work on Monday morning proclaiming “I’m off to shake the money tree.” …
Looking Out Into the Forest: See What Really Matters
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. — Theodore Roosevelt By Rose Epperson We spent so much time looking inward in our organizations. Bogged down with the daily…
The Nature of Motivation: A View From the Forest Floor
By Rose Epperson “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein We are looking at business through a larger lens this year – focusing on the entire forest not the just the trees. Taking…
Identifying the “WHY”: Taking the Focus on the Forest Message to the Next Level
By Rose Epperson “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” – Simon Sinek In our January issue, I shared with our readers a new perspective for 2016 – focusing on the forest, not the trees.…
Focus on the Forest, Not the Trees: A New Perspective for the New Year
For 2016, let’s get out of the weeds and focus on the big picture view of business. Let’s focus on the forest, not the trees. In the green industry, we hear that statement a lot, “can’t see the forest for…