As his company's staffing needs grew, the late Jobs was vigilant against the threat of a swelling of second-rate talent (or what he called "the bozo explosion").
There's little doubt that escalating commodity prices since 2007 have resulted in higher farm incomes and fueled a steady rise in farm machinery sales.
Do you have a cell phone? Do you access the Internet regularly to find information? How about voice mail? Or a digital camera? Word processing or spreadsheets?
Fifteen years ago during a series of speeches I delivered to various equipment dealer associations throughout North America, I predicted that the agricultural equipment industry would lose between 25-40% of its dealers during the first decade of the third millennium.
As the cost of machinery continues to escalate and farmers grow their operations. They want an account executive who understands the impact of depreciation rules and applies them to their greatest advantage.
Mahindra USA, the number one selling tractor in the world based on volume, was selected as the Best Indian Company in the U.S. in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the IndoAmerican Chamber of Commerce.
Stotz Equipment, a 23-store operation headquartered in Avondale, Ariz., now has a systematic means of identifying future talent through the use of depth charts. Employees are incentivized to add someone they know to depth charts.
According to the executive leadership team at Stotz Equipment (a 23-store operation with stores in 8 states), the period following its Greenline Equipment acquisition in 2005 was a miserable time for the dealership.
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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