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Tuesday, 16 January 2018 14:40
Four Best Practices to Try from B2C Companies
Business leaders know there are notable differences between B2B and B2C environments. However, from time to time it can be helpful to analyze how successful…
Friday, 29 December 2017 19:56
How to Improve Your Decision-Making Process
Business leaders must demonstrate intelligence, curiosity and good judgment in their daily lives. Most importantly, they need to be able to make decisions, sometimes controversial…
Thursday, 28 December 2017 18:13
Could 2018 be the year to develop your own hardwood lumber grade?
Those familiar with the hardwood lumber industry know that we conduct business with each other based on an agreed upon standard of product grading rules. …
Friday, 08 December 2017 17:08
Popular Uses for Poplar
In the forests of North America, poplar is one of the most commonly found hardwoods. It grows widely throughout the eastern part of the United…
Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:18
Building Trust in the Workplace
What does a workplace with a high degree of trust look like? Employees who feel trusted in their skills and judgment tend to perform better…
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 13:28
Proper Drying of Tropical Lumber Makes a Difference
The difference between tropical lumber dried in the US or overseas is very noticeable. Lumber that is too dry, too wet, dried too fast…
Friday, 17 November 2017 21:22
Can You Transform Your Company into a Digital Business?
Companies may once have had a choice of whether or not to do business without paying attention to the digital component. Those days are long…
Friday, 17 November 2017 19:32
How your width sort is tallied makes a difference
Veterans in the hardwood lumber industry know that not all width sorts are the same. But those newer to the industry might not understand how…
Thursday, 09 November 2017 16:46
5 Tips to Improve Employee Engagement
There’s compelling evidence that employee engagement in the workplace is not where businesses would like it to be. As recently as January of this year,…
Friday, 27 October 2017 14:49
Why Not Basswood?
Basswood is one of those hardwood species that does not get mentioned much. Most of the time it does not even show up as a…
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Friday, 13 October 2017 13:54
Can a Mentorship Program Help Your Business?
When the time comes to hire new team members many companies opt to hire externally. Others choose to promote from within. In such cases, there’s…
Wednesday, 11 October 2017 13:42
White Ash is Getting Harder to Find
It seems the market demand for white ash has not dwindled. From a sawmill's perspective, what has seemed to dwindle is the amount of hardwood…
Friday, 06 October 2017 14:02
Different Tropical Wood Products; Stumps and Slabs from Brazil
Sometimes you never know what you are going to see on a sawmill trip to Brazil.
Thursday, 05 October 2017 12:48
Great Questions to Ask When Learning from Others
John C. Maxwell, author of the bestselling leadership book, Good Leaders Ask Great Questions, explores the process by which CEOs, business leaders and others ask…
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