Mindset Archives

Questions to ask yourself as an owner of a landscape business

by Greg Herring | May 30, 2023 | Business Strategy, Leadership, Mindset, Planning

This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on May 30, 2023. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. I like to ask questions. Sometimes I ask questions of...

Four habits all high-performing landscape companies share

by Greg Herring | Apr 6, 2023 | Leadership, Mindset, Planning, Profit

This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on April 2, 2023 as a part of The Herring Group Benchmark Report recap series. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business...

Employees’ Guilt About Profits Hurts Your Business

by Greg Herring | Jan 14, 2019 | Business, Business Strategy, Growth, Leadership, Mindset, People, Planning, Pricing, Profit, Results

Many people think your company makes too much money. What do your employees think? Do they have guilt about profits? (Note: this post was originally published on August 29th, 2016. It has been updated to reflect new data.) According to a Pew Research Center poll in...

Pleased But Not Satisfied: A Leader’s Mindset

by Greg Herring | Jan 5, 2019 | Leadership, Mindset

There is a new year ahead of us. It is common for people to feel stressed or overwhelmed at this point in the calendar year. After all, the nights are longer, the days are shorter, and the world seems a little colder and darker. (As I mentioned in my last post,...

The Light Shines in the Darkness

by Greg Herring | Dec 22, 2018 | Faith & Business, Mindset, People

There’s just something about darkness. For one, darkness creates fear. Perhaps that fear is a result of not knowing what is there. Darkness allows our imaginations to run wild because we cannot use our sight to correct our thoughts with the truth. Fear about...