What I’ve got is a kitchen table education. I come from a long line of wholegoods managers. A lot of you know my dad, Roy. I presented the following ideas to him in 2005 when things were a mess.
AgriVision (John Deere) and Livingston Machinery (AGCO) detail the compensation programs they’ve developed to keep attention on used equipment — and the actions they most want to drive.
Used equipment experts agree that there’s no silver bullet when it comes to a compensation plan. There are numerous variables, personalities and ways of doing business and no single program is a panacea. But like most things, as a manager, you get to choose which behaviors you most want to drive, and also the set of challenges that go along with them.
If you need talent to power your business — and I don’t know of any organization that doesn't — you can't make your recruiting process so unfriendly to job-seekers that it drives the best candidates away.
Summers Mfg. announced that Deb Anderson will be transitioning to chairman of the board and retiring from her day to day activities as president. Ryan Gruhn, a longtime board member, has accepted the position of CEO
CNH Industrial N.V. announced that Brad Crews, Chief Operating Officer for the NAFTA region, and a member of the Company’s Group Executive Council, has elected to retire, effective Oct. 13, 2017.
When hiring new employees for your business, you may run across two types of candidates during the interview process. One recruit is as loyal as the day is long but doesn’t have the skills needed to fill the role. The other is highly-skilled but is focused solely on making money. How do you choose?
Functional leadership means readily admitting that you don’t know everything. It means understanding that the more questions you ask, they more you’ll find out. And the more you find out, they more you can accomplish.
If there is one thing that most farm equipment dealers can agree on, it’s that an excessive inventory of used equipment will put them out of business faster than any other single mistake that he can make.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we look at President Trump's tariff reduction on ag equipment, the latest dealer sales forecasts, and how high input costs are keeping farmer sentiment down.
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