On Saturday, October 10, the IRONMAN World Championship returned to Kona with the men and women racing on the same day for the first time since 2019. As always, the Big Island wrote its own script. Defending men’s champion Casper Stornes never reached the start line after a training crash. Vincent Luis won on his
We’ve just returned from this year’s Scotland trip, and I’m still savoring it. This time we traveled as a group of ten. While last year’s gathering sparked lively debates about sales and labor, this year felt different. There was no formal agenda and no list of burning topics. Instead, there was time and space for
I’ll start with a spoiler alert: Artificial intelligence can probably provide a more thorough and better-written article on the elements of servant leadership than you will find here. I know this because I asked Claude, and it gave me a beautifully written piece with all the pertinent information. So, why would I try anyway? Most
Landing new clients isn’t your hardest problem. Getting leadership teams to consistently follow through on established goals is really keeps owners up at night. That’s exactly where business coaching for landscape companies earns its keep. Coaching brings the structure, accountability, and guidance that turn plans into execution (instead of one more meeting where everyone nods
The skills that got your company off the ground are not the skills that will take it to the next tier. That’s the trap most owners never see coming. You built the business by doing everything yourself — and now that same instinct is quietly holding the business back. Strong landscape leadership is the shift
Most landscape owners obsess over generating new leads while the leads they already have are quietly slipping away. According to the 2025 State of the Industry Report from the National Association of Landscape Professionals, 22% of landscaping business owners put “difficulty generating quality leads” among their top concerns. However, the real focus should be sales
Hiring good people is hard. Keeping them is harder, and it’s the fight that actually decides whether your company grows or just churns. Every time a strong employee walks out the door, you pay for it in hiring costs, lost productivity, and customer service that takes a hit. Here’s what the best companies have figured
What does the sales pipeline look like for your landscaping business? If you’re envisioning a scattered pile of estimates and sticky notes on your desk, your company is being held back. A clearly defined landscaping sales pipeline is a consistent, repeatable process for converting leads into paying contracts. If you don’t have that in place,
You want to take a week off without your phone lighting up every hour. For a lot of landscape owners, that’s a fantasy. The business doesn’t run without them; it runs through them. Every estimate, every upset customer, every crew question, every judgment call routes back to one person: you. That works when you’re small.
Every fall, endurance athletes reach the same fork in the road. The big race is behind you. The body is tired. The calendar starts to look like a gentle slide into the holidays. You can let the season wind down on its own, or find one more start line and decide the year isn’t finished
