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Dialing For Growth
A couple weeks ago Jack and Suzy Welch gave some great advice for growing small and medium sized businesses in their weekly column in BusinessWeek.
There is very little literature out there about medium sized, growing businesses. Most books are about either huge corporations or about startups. Jack and Suzy suggested simply getting out the phone and calling other businesses. Most businesses are very open to sharing - you just have to ask the question.
I see that in the construction industry all the time - contractors are very local and if you want to learn something just find a contractor across the country who is doing something cool. I almost guarantee you that they will talk to you and help you out in any way possible.
Download the MP3 podcast of the article for more details - or just pick up the phone and start calling people!
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The Toyota Way is my favorite book for 2007. It had so many good ideas that I could not keep up and ended up reading it again and even buying the Field Book to go along with it.
Download Elegant Solutions from Change This which provides some highlights of the Toyota Production System. Too many ideas that are applicable to contractors to even count!
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