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Robert Clinkenbeard
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  • About
    • Team
    • Testimonials
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    • Hire Robert
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    • Ironman Mindset
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    Metric of the Month: Business Entity Revenue Per Employee
    Employee productivity is closely linked to organizational revenue. But how much revenue should each employee be expected to generate? By Perry D. Wiggins and CPA December...
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    Negotiate Like a Pro and Achieve More
    By Eric Partaker In work we're often engaged in some form of negotiation. But most people go about it all wrong, creating unnecessary disharmony and...
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    7 Kick-Ass Ways To Inspire Your Team
    Does your team dread planning? Most leaders do, too. Frankly, motivating folks to care about the preparation, execution and follow through can be one...
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    Staying Smart: Activate Your Learning Activities
    "The world is moving VERY fast - to keep up, you have to double your capability every three years. If leaders can't scale -...
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    CCG Advisors announces the sale of Monarch Landscape Companies to Audax Private Equity
    Atlanta, GA – March 31, 2022 – CCG Advisors, LLC (“CCG”), an Atlanta-based investment banking firm, announced their latest successfully closed transaction in the...
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    If You’re Going to Raise Prices, Tell Customers Why
    by Utpal M. Dholakia David Muir / Getty Images Covid restrictions are lifting in some parts of the world and the economy is booming in some sectors. Some labor and material...
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    3 Questions to Better Your Organization
    If you’re looking to channel your inner superhero, I have good news. Most of them are not born: They’re made. From Top Gun fighter...
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    World’s Most Valuable Sports Teams 2021
    By Mike Ozanian, Forbes Staff Billionaire Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in the end zone at AT&T Stadium. Photo by Matt Hawthorne. The pandemic has caused...
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    Make or break pricing decisions
    by Steve Steele, Systems & Analytics Practice Leader Words of Wilson features a rotating panel of consultants from Bruce Wilson & Company, a landscape consulting...
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    Help your employees find purpose – or watch them leave
    By Naina Dhingra, Andrew Samo, Bill Schaninger, and Matt Schrimper If the tumult of 2020 has prompted your organization or leadership team to reconsider people priorities such...
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    What Is BHAG?
    “Most people overestimate what they can do in one yearand underestimate what they can do in 10 years.”- Bill Gates What Is BHAG? To put it...
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    What matters most? Five priorities for CEOs in the next normal
    By Homayoun Hatami and Liz Hilton Segel How leaders can adapt to a very different future. Over the course of the pandemic, businesses have largely—and often...
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    Building a Committed Team
    Most people think of golf when they think of a sport in Scotland. As a kid growing up in Edinburgh, it was the grass...
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    Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
    We all have the capacity to inspire and empower others. But we must first be willing to devote ourselves to our personal growth and...
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    How to Manage & Optimize Productivity
    Is your team truly productive or just busy? Is every member making the most of their time on the clock and delivering results? Is...
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    Check Your Alignment
    The tensions between individual and organizational values have been clearly identified in management research. A close alignment between individuals’ values and those of their...
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    Three Strategies for Hiring the Best Talent
    Choosing the right people for your team, especially your leadership team, is absolutely critical to the success of your company. However , building a...
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    The Importance of Employee Engagement
    Everyone is talking about the War for Talent. If you are a C-Suite leader, it is highly likely that your top priority has been...
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    Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development
    While the benefits of psychological safety are well established, a new survey suggests how leaders, by developing specific skills, can create a safer and...
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    Execution Strategies In A Softening Economy
    One of the challenges facing businesses today is the execution gap. Even when the economy is roaring, many companies find it difficult to put...
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    Finding Your Edge
    In private equity, we’re always trying to find our “angle” on a deal. The reality is that at our scale ($50M+ EBITDA businesses), private...
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    How getting organized helped one company grow from $3 million in revenue to nearly $11 million
    By Verne Harnish BE-CI works in a field that provides an essential service most people don’t think much about: building envelope consulting. Its team keeps buildings...
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    Why Retaining Your Best People Has Become Even More Important
    Are you sick of hearing about ‘The Great Resignation’? It’s everywhere. There’s constant doom and gloom around the dangers of losing good staff in...
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    Building a Winning Team for your business
    We are in full swing in many sports seasons with the NFL, College football, MLB playoffs and NBA games starting this week. As you...
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    Recruit Relentlessly
    Trying out new strategies, and spending the right amount of time on recruiting, can help you attract quality labor. By Kim Lux at Lawn &...
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    Annual Planning and Finding Your "Why"
    It’s that magical time of year when big box stores jump straight from Halloween into the holiday season, signaling the rapidly approaching end of...
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    Why finding strategic thinkers is essential to business growth
    By Dominic Monkhouse Imagine this. You’ve been working in your industry for at least ten years. You know your customers inside out and there’s a...
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    Five Great Ways to Help You Say “NO” More
    Do you get a hit from new ideas?  Does your serotonin peak when you think about a different approach? And take a nose-dive when...
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    Reminder of the 80/20 Rule
    If you find yourself in the shoes of a Solopreneur, you're likely caught in the whirlwind of numerous responsibilities, especially if you're simultaneously nurturing...
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    Scaling Up vs EOS:
    Are you considering implementing Scaling Up or EOS in your business? Not sure which is right for you? This article gives a frank comparison...
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    Robert Clinkenbeard Launches Ten Percent for a Sustainable Future Pledges Climate-Positive Funding that Improves Quality of Life
    GREENVILLE, South Carolina – Robert Clinkenbeard, global entrepreneur and founder and CEO ofThe Radix Group, today announced Ten Percent, a program designed to support...
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    The Mini-Games Effect with Rich Armstrong
    The Great Game of BusinessIt’s been over 26 years since Jack Stack published the revolutionary guide, “The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible...
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    8 Best Practices In Financial Management
    by Anna Papadopoulos Whether you’re a startup business owner or a senior executive at a large and established corporation, you probably know how complex it...
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    Preparing Your Business For An Exit
    At some point, virtually every CEO will transition out of their leadership role and hand the reins o to someone else. When that time...
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    Why You Should Invest in Unconventional Talent
    by Debbie Ferguson and Fredrick “Flee” Lee mikeinlondon/Getty Images What do an administrative assistant, exercise physiologist, and music composition major have in common? They are all...
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    Robert Clinkenbeard Launches Ten Percent for a Sustainable Future Pledges Climate-Positive Funding that Improves Quality of Life
    Robert Clinkenbeard, global entrepreneur and founder and CEO of The Radix Group, today announced Ten Percent, a program designed to support organizations and non-profits working towards...
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    Cash-Flow Strategies In a Softening Economy
    For businesses, there’s never a time when cash-ow isn’t a critical component to proper management and growth. During a softening economy, however, it’s absolutely...
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    Preparing for a Strong Exit
    By Corey Kupfer   Jay Offerdahl and his father, Brad, founded Viking Mergers & Acquisitions in Charlotte, NC in 1996. Now, Jay is the president, and he...
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    Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
    by David Rock and Heidi Grant Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public...
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    How To Get Better at Thinking Like an Entrepreneur
    “I think therefore I am”, a 17th-century philosophy of belief in one’s self, was uttered by French mathematician René Descartes. But it could very...
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    Ask These Questions Every 90 Days
    A handful of precious gems are just waiting to be mined within every 90-day period. Here are 4 powerful questions to uncover the diamonds in...
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    How Getting the Cash Flow Right Will Help your Business Grow
    ‘Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is king.’  Heard that phrase before? It’s probably familiar to you, particularly the last bit about cash....
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    6 Ways to Make Innovation a Competitive Advantage
    We’ve come a long way since we first thought outside the box. Landscape businesses today are moving so fast that we blew through the...
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    The 8 Essential Elements of Trust in Business
    Shut your eyes, just for a moment. Imagine a world where you trusted everyone. What would be different?  Cars would be permanently unlocked.  Windows...
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    The Three Red Flags of Leadership
    As a leader in your business or organization, it’s your job to identify the roadblocks to success and then blow them up. But how...
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    The Sales Effectiveness Metric Most Don’t Measure
    By Karen Kopp If 100% of your 1st prospect meetings don’t result in 2nd meetings, there is likely a good reason and a few easy...
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    How to Shift from Selling Products to Selling Services
    It takes different skills and a different focus.  by Doug J. Chung From the Magazine (March–April 2021) Thomas Heinz Spotlight Series / How Leaders Can Drive Sales When Satya Nadella became CEO of...
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    Objectives v’s Tasks – Why Knowing the Difference, Will Lead to Growth.
    You’ve got a problem. Something needs fixing in your business.  Maybe you’re losing margin to a competitor or there’s a service issue that’s hitting...
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    Understanding The Industry and The Business Model
    By Walker Deibel Contrary to popular belief, most businesses in the world don’t have a significantly unique offering. Instead, it’s more common to rely on...
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    Strategies For Growing Profit Margins With Mike Joseph
    What obstacles are keeping businesses from increasing their profit margins and how can they get around them? We recently discussed this question with Mike...
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    5 STEPS TO BIG GROWTH DURING A RECESSION
    A Recession is coming, and it’s your job as a CEO and leader to face it head on. Inflation is at a 40-year high. According...
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    BUILDING COMPANIES TO LAST
    Inc. Special Issue—The State of Small Business by Jim Collins 1995 IN A WORLD OF CONSTANT CHANGE, THE FUNDAMENTALS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER In this era of dramatic...
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    Developing The Right Plan With Ken Thiessen
    How can leaders come out of their annual sessions with the right plan for their business? This is the question we recently discussed with...
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    Building Blocks For An Effective One-To-One
    The one-on-one meeting is widely regarded as a fundamental, highly-effective business practice that can yield excellent results for leaders and employees alike – but...
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    Leading through a crisis
    If doom-and-gloom headlines are getting you down, you are not alone. I launched a landscape company in 2001, the beginning of a decade that...
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    A primer for snow and ice pricing
    By Mike Jiggens Concepts and strategies for setting pricing of snow services for the coming season Commercial parking lots are often higher priority customers for snow contractors...
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    How To Design A Process People Actually Want To Use
    Written By Peter Lohmann Image from www.chiefsalesleader.com Here’s a collection of concepts that I use when thinking about building a great process: Have realistic expectations Confirm...
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    The Three Red Flags of Leadership
    As a leader in your business or organization, it’s your job to identify the roadblocks to success and then blow them up. But how...
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    How selling more to your core customer will help your business grow
    You’re sitting in an Executive Team meeting.  The conversation turns to your customers.  What thoughts do you have in your head? And are these...