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| PLUMBING BUSINESS | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 50 Just as mediocrity in contracting services performed
diminishes the ability to deliver excellence to consumers, mediocrity in education diminishes the transference of logical sound business wisdom. In other words, you must pick instructors/facilitators who really possess the ability to put contractors on the correct mathematical and moral path. Since most contractors have little or no sound business
know-how, using an “open forum” without a well versed facilitator could be counterproductive. The loud voice of a contractor with poor business protocols could commandeer the forum and lead contractors further into the abyss of misery which awaits those using poor business practices. Bad example is the cause of the industry problem of which C.C. writes in the first place. Everybody charges a dollar less than the other guy. That’s not smart. It’s downright stupid! Picking the right leader
Richard P. DiToma is a contracting business consultant and active PHC contractor with over 40 years of experience in the PHC industry. To receive more information about his: • Contracting Business • Coaching • Consultations • Business Books • Seminars with Solutions • Customized Price Guides • Customized Business Forms
CONTACT RICHARD by phone at 845/639-5050 or via e-mail at
richardditoma@verizon.net Fax: 845/639-6791 R&G Profit-Ability Inc. P.O. Box 282, West Nyack, NY 10994
is vital. History is full of bad leaders who have led their people down the path of destruction. Napoleon was a leader on an ego trip which led to his “Waterloo.” General George Armstrong Custer, in his wrong-headed hubris, led his troops to their massacre at the battle of the Little Big Horn. On the other hand, there are good leaders.
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George Washington led a ragtag army to a military victory over the highly organized army of England’s George III after our Founding Fathers declared independence from the British Empire. Then they intelligently crafted a constitution that took into consideration matters that could arise in the futures as well those that faced them at the time. Those men were brave and intelligent leaders who put their lives on the line for an idea that was righteous. If you choose a poor instructor/facilitator as a
contracting business coach, you will get bad results. Before choosing a coach, interview that person to make sure that he/she has the following requisite abilities: 1) The capacity to understand the problems you
encounter as a contractor. This would require a contractor with years of experience encountering and solving those problems 2)A creative mind to offer solutions to improve your
business 3) The integrity and intelligence to answer your
questions truthfully, correctly and logically 4) The skill to show you how to develop good sound
business protocols 5) The patience to put up with the bad habits you have
developed until he/she can steer you away from those bad habits and enlighten you to the proper way to run a business. Open forums which lack a coach with those abilities
are blind to the truths about this industry. They can do more harm than good. Open forums with good coaches can lead you onto the road to success. Thanks, C.C. for bringing up this issue. I hope it has
helped my readers understand the importance of improving ourselves through discussion. If any of you need my coaching assistance, I can be reached at 845/639- 5050. To all I wish “good health and good luck.”;
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