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Author: Jeffrey Scott

Jeffrey Scott

Jeffrey Scott

Jeffrey Scott, MBA, author, specializes in growth and profit maximization in the Green Industry. His expertise is rooted in personal success, growing his own company into a $10 million enterprise. Now, he facilitates the Leader’s Edge peer group for landscape business owners. To learn more visit GetTheLeadersEdge.com

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Business Insider: How to set up your business to successfully retire in place

Jeffrey Scott shares a five-point program as a checklist that shows how to set up your business to run itself day-to-day so you can retire in place.

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Profit Power: Peer groups are networking made simple

Jeffrey Scott shares the benefits of joining a peer group as they allow for landscape professionals to grow their contacts, knowledge and results.

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Business Insider: Why selling your business is a bad investment

Jeffrey Scott explains how selling your business may seem like a smart business move but it has risks and is not the only scenario for building wealth.

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Profit Power: 9 tips to successfully navigate an uncertain economy

Jeffrey Scott shares the steps businesses should take in order to ride out the pending storm instead of scaling back growth.

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Profit Power: One big idea to prepare your business for a downturn

Jeffrey Scott shares the steps you and your business should take to prepare for possible economic instability in the coming years.

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How building a band is like building a rockin’ leadership team

Jeffrey Scott says the approach to building a strong team that at work that stays and grows together is a lot like building a band.

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Profit Power: 3 places to look to find your organization’s next leader

Jeffrey Scott shares new approaches to known solutions to find and grow your company’s leadership team.

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Business Insider: 3 must-do strategies to win in the coming decade

With the landscape business world changing fast, Jeffrey Scott shares three keys to success for your business this year and beyond.

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Profit Power: Better sales management with the 5 P’s

Jeffrey Scott shares how an untrained sales manager can drag down the performance of your sales team and how you can remedy it.

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Profit Power: Do your leaders make you (the owner) happier and more productive?

Jeffrey Scott shares how taking a closer look at your responsibilities can help you determine if you have the right leadership structure for your business.

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Profit Power: Five reasons to hire or develop a second in command

Jeffrey Scott revisits a popular topic: how green industry business owners can leverage a second in command to free up time and energy.

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Profit Power: 7 lessons from the racetrack to apply to your landscape business

Jeffrey Scott shares how lessons he’s learned on the racetrack can apply to improve the management of your landscape business.

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Profit Power: Why you should optimize overhead to optimize growth

Jeffrey Scott takes a look at the sweet spot between too much overhead the right amount to plan for growth.

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How a second-in-command can transform your business

Landscape Management columnist Jeffrey Scott explains how having a second-in-command can help transform your business for the better.

Profit Power: Why networking at industry events is not enough

When was the last time you networked in such a way that you had to reveal deep personal challenges you were facing in your business? We all like going to industry events: to mix it up, have a drink and make a new friend. That kind of networking is fun, but it does not make […]

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4 ways a second-in-command can grow your business

To scale your business and free up your time as an owner, your business needs a strong leadership team. But is that enough?

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Why business owners need to take vacations

Jeffrey Scott shares how owners who never take a break are disempowering their people and they probably don’t even realize it.

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Profit Power: How there’s more to success than just gold medals

Jeffrey Scott says businesses need to measure success by more than achievements and shares more valuable metrics to evaluate your business’s performance.

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Business Insider: Building growth platforms as private equity pushes into landscape managment

Jeffrey Scott: different approaches to growth as private equity pushes further into landscape management.

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Profit Power: To be a great leader, learn how to be a great follower

Jeffrey Scott shares how learning to follow, not only just lead, will help you build trust among your employees and create a stronger operation.

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Profit Power: How to ensure culture is more than a buzzword at your company

Editor’s note: This year’s LM150 content centered around how a strong culture helped LM150 companies prosper. Catch all of our LM150 content here. Every company has a culture, but how do you make sure your culture is more than just a buzzword at your company? Even though I wrote the book on this topic, Become A […]

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What do fast-growth companies have in common?

There is one thing that fast-growth companies have in common: they are always contemplating their next critical hire. You may wonder, however, “Which comes first, the growth to support the new critical hire, or do we make the critical hire first and then grow?” The answer for me is clear. A strong hire (from the […]

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Business Insider: What’s your business model

Jeffrey Scott explains how landscape companies can determine their business model and make appropriate choices based on the model.

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Profit Power: Best practices for staying calm, cool and collected during the busy season

Jeffrey Scott shares what landscape company owners can do to stay calm, cool and collected as they embark on the busy spring season.

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