Category Archives: Insights

Ryan put this together to show at the LMN Leaders Summit in 2018. It’s our team talking about why they like Open Book Management.

Financial and Non-Financial Scoreboards – our “jumbotrons” I loved playing sports in high school. I learned that teams worked well together on a common goal – winning the game – when we could all track our successes and failures in real time.  It just took some time for me to understand how I could apply […]

(Why a Piece of Garbage Tells a Story) Full disclosure: I generally try to stay out of the way when it comes to hiring, because I’m not that good at interviewing people. I consider myself a good judge of character, but for the nuts-and-bolts of an interview process, I tend to step aside.  Our leadership […]

We all fall into this trap as entrepreneurs at some point. We get into the habit of thinking we have all the answers. We built the business…we’re the authority, right? Wrong. Sometimes a good leader needs to listen to others…especially when those “others” are the people out in the field every day representing your company […]

We have a tagline at our landscaping company: Making Neighbours Jealous Since 1994. Our landscaping market is relatively small – a population of under 200,000 people share this gorgeous slice of the Okanagan Valley. But we generate over $2,000,000 in revenue every year and create 20 direct jobs for our owners and employees not to […]