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Happy 16th Birthday PalletOne!

PalletOne is 16 years old! When we started, we had 12 pallet manufacturing locations. Since then: We added six pallet locations. We entered the wood treating business and expanded to four locations. We added a trucking operation. We closed one location. We opened then closed another. We grew our team to 1,400 people. We have […]

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Tour Ready

“Tour ready” all the time. If I popped in your work area tomorrow with a visitor, would you be proud to show us around? Is housekeeping the way you like it? Safety rules in order? Equipment in working order? A healthy level of productivity? The whole team engaged? I learned a long time ago that […]

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Great Teachers

This is a blatant cut and paste job on my part of a post by educator Danny Steele. I’ve adopted a couple of thoughts gleaned from reading about Teach for America, an innovative teacher training program that recruits non-traditional candidates to teach underserved students in impoverished areas. The thoughts are: “Teaching is leadership.” This idea […]

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Choosing!!!

“A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else.” Hunter Thompson. Gonzo journalist. I studied journalism when I was younger. […]

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