Top 5 Business Management Tips From An Old Pro | TheGrindstone

This is a post from our friends at MoneyCrashers about what one business pro has learned about management from decades on the job.

C. DeWitt ?Dee? Brown, Jr. was a self-made man, starting as a hod carrier and apprentice bricklayer after graduating high school and proceeding to build one of the largest masonry companies in the United States with multimillion-dollar projects across the country. Dee was hard-nosed and pragmatic, his 1950s crew cut and Texas twang reminders of an early life when a day?s work was expected for a day?s pay.

A practical businessman who understood that profits were neither guaranteed, easily achieved, nor perpetual, he led his company, Dee Brown Masonry, Inc. (DBM), through cycle after cycle of booms and busts in the construction business. He expanded to exploit opportunity and shrank to survive adversity, but always surviving, meeting payrolls, eking profits when he could, and borrowing capital when he had no choice.

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Source: http://www.thegrindstone.com/2013/03/21/work-life-balance/top-5-business-management-tips-from-an-old-pro/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-5-business-management-tips-from-an-old-pro

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