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Empowerment through Delegation
Mid-level managers should be using every opportunity they can to delegate more and shift more responsibility to field managers, encouraging them to make decisions and empowering them do more.
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Meet the New and Improved IT Team
Over the last four years, the IT Team has undergone several personnel changes with the goal of better supporting operations through increased capabilities and skillsets. This past month, we continued that effort by hiring a new digital project manager, software developer, and help desk lead.
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Timing is Everything: Contract your Snow & Ice Removal Services in Summer
When it comes to contracting your snow & ice removal services, proper timing rarely gets the attention it deserves. As a result, it ends up happening much later in the year than it should. As contrary as it sounds, the best time to sign a snow contract—both for the contractor and customer—is over the summer months.
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Safety Spotlight: Strains and Sprains
Every day our field teams are at risk of slipping, tripping and falling, getting cuts, and experiencing strains and sprains. The good news is that these injuries are mostly preventable, and by following simple proactive measures we can greatly reduce or eliminate hazards, keep our people safe, and improve productivity.
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Fleet Speak: Customized Vehicle for Downtown Areas
To address traffic and parking challenges, we recently acquired our first production van to serve the D.C. market. While it cannot fit the full inventory needed to equip a six-man crew, this down-sized version of our typical truck and trailer combo is designed to be a specialty horticulture van serving small job sites in the city.
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The Evolution of Hardwood Mulch
Hardwood mulch as a product, and mulching as a horticultural practice, have greatly evolved over the last fifty years, and not necessarily to the benefit of plants. In fact, the preoccupation with the aesthetic value of mulching has led to an epidemic of over-mulching.
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The Proper Care of Daffodils
With its bright colors lighting up the garden, nothing in nature signifies the arrival of spring more than the daffodil, a flowering perennial planted as a bulb that provides the absolute best return on an amazingly minor investment of time and attention that will bloom every spring for decades.
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Hard Work Works
An Interview with branch manager Mike Fleming about his Williamson College Experience
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Financial Wellness: Long-term Planning
Long-term planning is critical to living comfortably during retirement, especially as people are expected to live to their late 70’s and beyond. In this article, we take a brief look at the steps you can take to prepare your own financial wellness blueprint.
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Financial Wellness: Paying Off Debt
Debt is a topic that is not fun to think or worry about, but it’s just as important to financial wellness as budgeting, saving, and long-term planning. In this article, we are going to look at what is considered good debt and bad debt, and how to manage it.
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