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Acquiring a Money Pit
You made a handshake agreement to buy the lumberyard where you got your start, before discovering problems that will cost a small fortune to fix.
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A contract is a contract. Or is it?
Your longtime outside salesperson is going to retire before the end of the year, but doesn't agree that their original contract is fair. What would you do?
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Tariff Roulette
To be supplier of choice for a new housing development requires guaranteed lumber pricing. What would you do?
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#Factcheck
A local company is using your social media channels to take credit for creating a community service program you’d launched years earlier.
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Shattered Trust
A truckload of mistakes from your window/door vendor has seriously delayed several high-end homes and infuriated your affected builder's customers.
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The Master Demotivator
After a year of showing mostly solid results, the owner of the company downplayed your accomplishments. Now what?
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The Sinking Flagship
As an outsider brought in to troubleshoot, you’ve discovered that the family-owned company’s flagship yard is suffering from clueless management by a family member.
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(Un)friendly Fire
A colleague at your lumberyard seems determined to cause problems for you and customers, and to add another challenge, he’s also the owner’s son.
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How would you handle this social media mess?
Your company’s reputation is under attack online because of a misleading video clip of a team member wearing a logoed work shirt in a bad situation. What would you do?
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Tough Call: Recruiting While Retaining
After running lean due to fears of an impending recession, your team is burned out and your recruiting efforts are going nowhere.
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