Landscape Management, June 2017
How we got Started Origin stories from a few LM150 firms as told to dillon stewart T hink back to your humble beginnings The starry eyed days where you had nothing but a mower and a dream There are many reasons the leaders from LM150 list companies may be different from the average landscape company scale scope and sometimes just pure luck But a modest beginning is not one of them Landscape origin stories have a few common tropes and many of them are represented here For the hand me down family company see Jon Georgios story about the origins of Gothic Landscape For the kid with his mower story read about Kory Ballard founding Perficut when he was 14 For the outside the industry leader with the ability to put the right people in the right positions and take a step back hear from J T Price at Landscape Workshop While the stories vary there are similarities among them all Good people and hard work are big ones but the most omnipresent characteristic among the LM150 leaders we spoke with was a genuine passion and love for the work that they do a regard for their humble beginnings and a driving set of principles that organically created great company cultures All the talent in the world just doesnt work without purpose says Jon Georgio CeO of Gothic Landscape I think its what Brickman Group now part of Bright View founder Dick Brickman had and I think when you look behind the curtain of those extremely successful organi zations there was some deep purpose and values that really grew those companies LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET June 2017 S4 zaand
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