Michael Hyatt is a leadership thought leader that I read often. He had a particularly insightful blog last week. I am sharing the link below. It ratifies a notion that I have that our enterprise has become stronger as a result of the recession. I believe that we have accessed each of these benefits. In […]

Meeting people anew, you get asked what you do. When I say pallets and lumber, I get two common responses. The first is amazement that there is a company that builds pallets. The second is that everyone has a pallet story: they had a job where they had to stack them or they built a […]

The election for President is coming fast upon us. While some folks would say that politics shouldn’t be discussed at work, I have found that many teammates are interested in what I think inside of work. Being interested in what I think doesn’t mean that I believe that you should agree with what I think. […]

One of the better things about seeing our business improve is that we are “hiring” again. During the tight economy that began four years ago, we had to reduce a good bit. We eliminated shifts, we cut hours and we didn’t replace folks that left in the normal flow of things. In the last two […]