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I've worked for a number of landscape companies of varying size and have been around many others. The guys who have more than 5 or 6 workers seemed to have accepted that they were only going to get really good help by luck. They concentrated on managing what they got and accepting what they got rather than chasing the holy grail.
The one thing that I think is the hardest thing for people in our industry to grasp is that size does not depend on quality, horticultural knowledge, a crack designer, or a lot of other things. It is ability to manage help that will overcome all other short comings and all the skills in all the other aspects of ownership will not overcome a lack of abiity to manage help.
My opinion is that you are either a leader type or you are not and that it is very doubtful that you can become one if you did not start out as one.
Something to think about, although I have known some landscapers for ten or twenty years who still don't understand that and are in denial of that.
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