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Why Debt-to-EBITDA Drives Company Culture

What Building Materials Leaders Need to Understand: Every leader in the building materials distribution space should understand one uncomfortable fact: your company's debt-to-EBITDA ratio isn't just…
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The Muppet Master & The Empty Chair

There is a particular kind of company tragedy that unfolds not with a bang but with a slow, almost imperceptible surrender. No fraud. No market collapse. No catastrophic product failure. Just a…
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The Lump of Labor Fallacy vs. Classical Economics

Lessons from the Lumber Yard, the Loading Dock, and the Dinner Table Every generation gets its version of the same panic. In the 1800s, the Luddites smashed textile looms. Karl Marx fought the…
The Lump of Labor Fallacy vs. Classical Economics
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The Reckoning: What 1929 Teaches the Building Materials Industry About Sales Leadership

The Reckoning: What 1929 Teaches the Building Materials Industry About Sales Leadership Andrew Ross Sorkin spent nearly a decade writing 1929, his definitive account of the most catastrophic…
What 1929 Teaches the Building Materials Industry About Sales Leadership
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From Lumber Out to Build-Out: Why LBM Dealers Can’t Afford to Dabble in Installation

The message from the CEO Summit stage was direct, and it wasn't comfortable: if you're a lumber and building materials dealer operating as a "box in, box out" or “lumber unit in, lumber out”…
Install or be left behind....What LBM Leaders Gain by Owning the Process
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The Untrained Manager’s Guide to Misusing Psychological Assessments

You know that top performer on your sales team? The one crushing quota every quarter? It's tempting to profile them psychologically and use that as your hiring template. After all, if you could clone…
The Untrained Manager's Guide to Misusing Psychological Assessments
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Why your last search firm hire failed. Most hiring failures don’t come down to talent.

Your priest knows your sins. Your coach knows your weaknesses. Your barber well, says the bald guy, they know things too. The common thread? Trust. Without trust, you get surface-level…
Why your last search firm hire failed
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