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As Seen in Automotive Buy Sell Report – Making your dealership’s work culture Millennial-friendly
Culture has become a critical part of ensuring long-term success of your business. The growing generational gap and increase in number of nextgen leaders coming is forcing business owners to really look at their culture and make change. Before making any kind of change, you first have to understand (and embrace) what is important to your next generation of leaders. Regardless of the generation from which they come, the outcome of looking at your culture is the same. In this article, David Weaver tackles what is important to millennials and how to create a win-win for all generations involved. [...]
As Seen in Automotive Buy Sell Report – Some tips for understanding millennials’ attitude towards work
Employee retention is one of the largest problems for business owners to solve and overcome. In addition, finding good candidates is harder than ever before. Whether the issues relate to a good economy, low unemployment rate, or simply just a lack of talent coming into certain fields, the challenge is real. Add in the generational factor of business owners not understanding the attitudes of up and coming generations, and it’s a recipe for disaster. In this article, David Weaver provides insights into how you can understand the attitudes of millennial employees. Click the following link to read David Weaver’s [...]
Planning for the Predictable, Probable, and Possible
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was widely ridiculed for his “what we do not know” response during a 2002 Department of Defense news briefing. In part, Rumsfeld said about threat assessments, ‘As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter [...]
The Culture of People
I admit it. I’m an Apple junkie. Our family has iPhones, MacBooks, an iMac, Apple TV, and several iPads (I bought my 84-year old computer-less mother-in-law one last Christmas and had to increase my data plan just to accommodate her web surfing!). I will not, however, be sporting an Apple Watch since I don’t wear a watch anyway and even with sleek looks, the thought of wearing a ‘computer’ on my wrist reminds me too much of the geeks of yore who wore their calculator watches that required a toothpick stylus to peck at the small keyboard. Since I tend [...]
Just Give Up
If I were to place one image here, a ‘swoosh’ that looks something like a happy go lucky check-mark, you would instantly recognize it – the Nike logo. You would also call to mind their slogan, ‘Just Do It.’ My interpretation of that slogan is that they are calling us to just get started, get practicing, get swinging, get running, get physical, and enjoy life - using their products, of course! Enjoying life includes enjoying the workplace since it takes up so much of our time but work can be a stressful environment. We work with all types of people [...]
Preparing Family Members to Take Over – As Seen On Automotive Buy Sell Report
Succession planning is a hot topic in the automotive industry and has been one frequently discussed in the pages of Automotive Buy Sell Report. Recent articles by Don Ray and Robert Bass have specifically focused on successor identification and development, and how, in the absence of a qualified successor or the lack of management bench strength, owners are forced to sell their business. Click Here to: Read full article on Automotive Buy Sell Report website Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter to stay informed on how to overcome related succession planning issues.
